“Near home I ran through our park, where I had aired my children on weekends and late-summer afternoons. I stopped at the… — Grace Paley Children Copy Share Image
Old age is not a good thing. It can be really hard, and those of us who have it a little easier… — Grace Paley Age Copy Share Image
Well, by now you must know yourself, honey, whatever you do, life don't stop. It only sits a minute and dreams a… — Grace Paley Dream Copy Share Image
The women's movement was coming, but I didn't know it in 1956-1957, when I began to write. — Grace Paley Knows Copy Share Image
It wasn't until I lived in the countryside that I began to understand the life of the countryside and the people in… — Grace Paley Cities Copy Share Image
…I go through a story for lies. I might discover the lie of trying to show off. Sometimes they’re lies of character.… — Grace Paley Beautiful Copy Share Image
I didn't intend. The word "intend" is the wrong word for what I do. It's just that it's something you do, and… — Grace Paley Art Copy Share Image
“... plot, the absolute line between two points which I've always despised. Not for literary reasons, but because it takes all hope… — Grace Paley Hope Copy Share Image
When I was about twenty-one, I published a few poems. Maybe I wrote a couple of stories before, but I really began… — Grace Paley Able Copy Share Image
“By love, she probably meant she would die without being in love. By in love, she meant the acuteness of the heart… — Grace Paley Friendship Copy Share Image
What I generally tell a class is that if you're not interested in anybody else's work but your own, take another class. — Grace Paley Another Copy Share Image
What we owe men is some freedom from their part in a murderous game in which they kick each other to death… — Grace Paley Comfortable Copy Share Image
People say, "Why do you call your kids up, why do you worry like that?" And I say, "I was raised like… — Grace Paley Eighty Copy Share Image
Everyone, real or invented, deserves the open destiny of life. — Grace Paley Destiny Copy Share Image
I am very interested in people trying to write because I don't have a big academic background at all. — Grace Paley Academic Copy Share Image
“I wanted a sailboat, he said. But you didn’t want anything. Don’t be bitter, I said. It’s never too late. No, he… — Grace Paley Different person Copy Share Image
I know I've done good work. I've been very serious about my writing, and I've done the best that I could. But… — Grace Paley Done Copy Share Image
