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Grace Paley

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What I'm interested in doing in a story is bringing certain different languages, people, events together and then letting the reader make what he wants of it.
Grace Paley
Everyone, real or invented, deserves the open destiny of life.
Grace Paley
You become a writer because you need to become a writer - nothing else.
Grace Paley
In the end, long life is the reward, strength, and beauty.
Grace Paley
Poets take themselves very seriously.
Grace Paley
If you want to do things, do things.
Grace Paley
I often see through things right to the apparition itself.
Grace Paley
Rosiness is not a worse windowpane than gloomy gray when viewing the world.
Grace Paley
You have to really understand how people speak, and you have to reconstruct it... Most pleasure in writing, you know, is in inventing.
Grace Paley
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 was kind of poisonous, toxic, really full of weapons, poison gases, all kinds of mean junk we didn't even want a slice of.
Grace Paley
That's the trouble with stories. People start out fantastic. You think they're extraordinary, but it turns out as the work goes along, they're just average with a good education.
Grace Paley
Writing poetry, which for me was then saying how I felt about this and that, didn't help me to understand the world I lived in.
Grace Paley
I don't believe civilization can do a lot more than educate a person's senses.
Grace Paley
Whatever you do, life don't stop. It only sits a minute and dreams a dream.
Grace Paley
The word career is a divisive word. Its a word that divides the normal life from business or professional life.
Grace Paley
I was a woman writing at the early moment when small drops of worried resentment and noble rage were secretly, slowly building into the second wave of the women's movement. I didn't know my small-drop presence or usefulness in this accumulation.
Grace Paley
The word career is a divisive word. It's a word that divides the normal life from business or professional life.
Grace Paley
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
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
Sometimes, walking with a friend, I forget the world.
Grace Paley
I was a fantastic student until ten, and then my mind began to wander.
Grace Paley
It's a terrible thing to die young. Still, it saves a lot of time.
Grace Paley
I see women as oppressed, but I don't see them as victims; I see them rising all the time. I see them as very strong.
Grace Paley
All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad or peculiar.
Grace Paley
'The Immigrant Story,' which took me about twenty-five years to write, was a very simple story, but I couldn't think of how to tell it. Then twenty years after I started it, I found this one page and realized it was going to be the story. That's the only way you get it sometimes.
Grace Paley
I didn't write any fiction until I was past thirty.
Grace Paley
Hindsight usually looked down upon is probably as valuable as foresight since it does include a few facts.
Grace Paley
Waves, once they land on the beach, are not reversible.
Grace Paley
A relationship with young people is very important to me. It's important to have a sense of what's going on in their world and not just in my own. So the opportunity teaching provides is a gift.
Grace Paley
Let us go forth with fear and courage and rage to save the world.
Grace Paley

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