My job is to get people to write something truthful, something about truth and beauty - wherever they are - and to… — Grace Paley Beauty Copy Share Image
I have a basic indolence about me which is essential to writing. ... It's thinking time, it's hanging-out time, it's daydreaming time.… — Grace Paley Bed Copy Share Image
I believe in a kind of fidelity to your own early ideas; it's a kind of antagonism in me to prevailing fads. — Grace Paley Antagonism Copy Share Image
If you're feminist, it means that you've noticed that male ownership of the direction of female lives has been the order of… — Grace Paley Female Copy Share Image
You have to really understand how people speak, and you have to reconstruct it... Most pleasure in writing, you know, is in… — Grace Paley How Copy Share Image
“I drank a little California Mountain Red at home and thought--why not--wherever you turn someone is shouting give me liberty of I… — Grace Paley 59 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
“We are in the hands of men whose power and wealth have separated them from the reality of daily life and from… — Grace Paley Daily life 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 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
I loved the comradeship of the sixties and the seventies, and I still maintain friendships with the people I worked with then… — Grace Paley Alive Copy Share Image
Whatever you do, life don't stop. It only sits a minute and dreams a dream. — Grace Paley Dream Copy Share Image
My language limitations here are real. My vocabulary is adequate for writing notes and keeping journals but absolutely useless for an active… — Grace Paley Active Copy Share Image
Here I am in the garden laughing an old woman with heavy breasts and a nicely mapped face how did this happen… — Grace Paley Bigs Copy Share Image
As an older person, I do feel an obligation to tell the story about what was really happening in the fifties, sixties,… — Grace Paley Feels 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
If I miss anything, it's being able to hang out in the city of New York meeting people and talking to them… — Grace Paley Able Copy Share Image
“it is possible with only a little extra anguish to live in this world at absolute [minimum?] loving brainy sexual energetic redeemed” — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
“I checked out the two Edith Wharton books I had just returned because I'd read them so long ago and they are… — Grace Paley Books Copy Share Image
