Sometimes before people know what they're saying, they already love the language. — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
Well, by now you must know yourself, honey, whatever you do, life don't stop. It only sits a minute and dreams a… — Grace Paley Dream Copy Share Image
The word career is a divisive word. It's a word that divides the normal life from business or professional life. — Grace Paley Business 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 Copy Share Image
The women's movement was coming, but I didn't know it in 1956-1957, when I began to write. — Grace Paley 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 Copy Share Image
I know I've done good work. I've been very serious about my writing, and I've done the best that I could. But… — 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
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
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'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
Most of the Womens Libbers I knew really didnt want to have a piece of the mens pie. They thought that pie… — Grace Paley 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 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 Copy Share Image
“Since I was a big reader, I might be able to accomplish something. I had no gift. That didn’t mean I must… — Grace Paley Books 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
“The abortion isn’t what they(conservative pro-life men of 1940s) are thinking about; they’re really thinking about sex. They’re really thinking about love… — Grace Paley Abortion 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 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
Just when I most needed important conversation, a sniff of the man-wide world, that is, at least one brainy companion who could… — Grace Paley Children 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 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
