“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 Left eye Copy Share Image
“My daughter has pointed out that there were not enough lovejobs to go around in this new world. In any event, I… — Grace Paley Children Copy Share Image
I'm seventy-five now. I also have the peculiar luck of having a sister and brother who are fourteen and sixteen years older… — Grace Paley Age Copy Share Image
What I'm interested in doing in a story is bringing certain different languages, people, events together and then letting the reader make… — Grace Paley Books Copy Share Image
“The younger people with the ache of youth were eating all the cheese.” — Grace Paley Youth Copy Share Image
When you think of things that influenced your life, Mother Goose influenced more people than almost any other thing, the rhythms of… — Grace Paley Geese Copy Share Image
Most of the Women's Libbers I knew really didn't want to have a piece of the men's pie. They thought that pie… — Grace Paley Even Copy Share Image
You become a writer because you need to become a writer - nothing else. — Grace Paley Writing 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 do lots of reading and speaking at many universities about literature and also about politics, which is as much a part… — Grace Paley Books Copy Share Image
You know the mind is an astonishing, long-living, erotic thing. — Grace Paley Astonishing Copy Share Image
No metaphor reinvents the job of the nurture of children except to muddy or mock. — Grace Paley Children 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
Hindsight, usually looked down upon, is probably as valuable as foresight, since it does include a few facts. — Grace Paley Doe Copy Share Image
'The Immigrant Story,' which took me about twenty-five years to write, was a very simple story, but I couldn't think of how… — Grace Paley About Copy Share Image
“He had had a habit throughout the twenty-seven years of making a narrow remark which, like a plumber’s snake, could work its… — Grace Paley Habits 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
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
Well, you have children so you know: little children little troubles, big children, big troubles - it's a saying in Yiddish. Maybe… — Grace Paley Bigs Copy Share Image
My vocabulary is adequate for writing notes and keeping journals but absolutely useless for an active moral life. — Grace Paley Active Copy Share Image
“Happy!" He leaned over the rail and tried to hold her eyes. But that is hard to do, for eyes are born… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
I didn't intend to become a short-story writer. I became one because I finished a couple of short stories and realized that's… — Grace Paley Children 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
