In prose, I think you sometimes have to write in very plain language, where every line may not seem to be so… — Grace Paley Every Copy Share Image
I begin by writing paragraphs that don’t have an immediate relation to a plot. The sound of the story comes first. — Grace Paley Firsts Copy Share Image
My mother went to demonstrations. I remember her going to a big demonstration for Earl Brower and she came home crying and… — Grace Paley Bigs 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 don't have any degrees. I went to Hunter College one year and New York University another year. It's just on the… — Grace Paley Another year Copy Share Image
Rosiness is not a worse windowpane than gloomy gray when viewing the world. — Grace Paley Gloomy Copy Share Image
Every time you finish something ... you figure you've finally learned to write, right? Then you start something else and it turns… — Grace Paley Book Copy Share Image
I'm really sorry for people growing up right now, because they have some cockeyed idea that they can get by with their… — Grace Paley Eye Copy Share Image
A lot of sad things have happened to my friends' children, people you knew as babies. They've been killed or become crazy… — Grace Paley All kinds Copy Share Image
If you're old and you're healthy and you're active - I don't mean you have to be politically active - if you… — Grace Paley Active Copy Share Image
Good talkers are people who use interesting language and have a lot of energy in speech and who also listen. — Grace Paley Communication Copy Share Image
To be modest means that you have something to be modest about. — Grace Paley Humility 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
I was a woman writing at the early moment when small drops of worried resentment and noble rage were secretly, slowly building… — Grace Paley Accumulate Copy Share Image
I liked the education. I liked people learning things all around me and I liked going to people's classes. — Grace Paley Class 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
It's a terrible thing to die young. Still, it saves a lot of time. — Grace Paley Die young Copy Share Image
Old age is another country, a place of strangeness, sometimes, and dislocation. There's a lot to be done in this country, and… — Grace Paley Age Copy Share Image
I developed a definition - which I think becomes less and less accurate as poetry moves into the world - that poetry… — Grace Paley Accurate Copy Share Image
