Let us go forth with fear and courage and rage to save the world. — Grace Paley Courage Copy Share Image
Everyone, real or invented, deserves the open destiny of life. — Grace Paley Deserves Copy Share Image
Writing poetry, which for me was then saying how I felt about this and that, didn't help me to understand the world… — Grace Paley About Copy Share Image
I read a lot. I liked a tremendous number of poets and writers. The person whose work I liked the most was… — Grace Paley Books 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
I really believe one of the jobs of a writer is to stretch as far as you can into other voices. — Grace Paley Believe Copy Share Image
All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad or peculiar. — Grace Paley Interest Copy Share Image
I don't believe civilization can do a lot more than educate a person's senses. — Grace Paley Believe Copy Share Image
I was a fantastic student until ten, and then my mind began to wander. — Grace Paley Fantastic Copy Share Image
Hindsight, usually looked down upon, is probably as valuable as foresight, since it does include a few facts. — Grace Paley Doe Copy Share Image
I did write a number of reports on my political experiences, but there were many omissions, and I feel bad about that… — Grace Paley Could have been Copy Share Image
But what's a writer for? The whole point is to put yourself into other lives, other heads-writers have always done that. If… — Grace Paley Done Copy Share Image
“I finally understood that I didn’t lack pen and paper but my own memorizing mind. It had been given away with a… — Grace Paley Creative thinking Copy Share Image
People will sometimes say, "Why don't you write more politics?" And I have to explain to them that writing the lives of… — Grace Paley People Copy Share Image
A relationship with young people is very important to me. It's important to have a sense of what's going on in their… — Grace Paley Education Copy Share Image
“Still, it is like a long hopeless homesickness my missing those young days. To me, they're like my own place that I… — Grace Paley Age Copy Share Image
I saw my ex-husband in the street. I was sitting on the steps of the new library. Hello, my life, I said.… — Grace Paley Ex husband Copy Share Image
Literature, fiction, poetry, whatever, makes justice in the world. That's why it almost always has to be on the side of the… — Grace Paley Books 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
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
This hill crossed with broken pines and maples lumpy with the burial mounds of uprooted hemlocks (hurricane of '38) out of their… — Grace Paley Aspens Copy Share Image
I was fortunate that by the time I was born, there were a lot of comforts and at the same time I… — Grace Paley Born Copy Share Image
“At this very moment, the thumb of Ricardo's hovering shadow jabbed her in her left eye, revealing for all the world the… — Grace Paley Floods Copy Share Image
“Air was filtering out of my two collapsing lungs. Water rose, bubbling to enter, and I would have died of instantaneous pneumonia… — Grace Paley Ashtray Copy Share Image
“Oh no,” she says. Soft because I am the older one, but very strong. (I’ve noticed it. All of a sudden they… — Grace Paley Stare Copy Share Image
When you have a peace movement that has an actual war, it's different from one that has wars that our country is… — Grace Paley America Copy Share Image
