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 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
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
My family were Russian Jews. They got you to read as soon as you could. And then assumed you would read a… — Grace Paley Family 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 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
“... 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
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
That's the trouble with stories. People start out fantastic. You think they're extraordinary, but it turns out as the work goes along,… — Grace Paley Along 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
There isn't a story written that isn't about blood and money. People and their relationship to each other is the blood, the… — Grace Paley Blood Copy Share Image
In the park I met other women and I started to get interested in their lives. I developed a lot of pressure… — Grace Paley Children Copy Share Image
“In a way he was lucky. He was a member of a generation that thought it was a good, even joyous, political… — Grace Paley Generation Copy Share Image
I lived in a house in the East Bronx, a totally Jewish neighborhood on East 172nd Street. You didn't see Christians much,… — Grace Paley Bronx 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
