Grace Paley Quotes
Top 62 wise famous quotes and sayings by Grace Paley
Grace Paley Famous Quotes & Sayings
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As an older person, I do feel an obligation to tell the story about what was really happening in the fifties, sixties, and seventies, as I saw it.
Good talkers are people who use interesting language and have a lot of energy in speech and who also listen.
All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad or peculiar.
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.
What I generally tell a class is that if you're not interested in anybody else's work but your own, take another class.
Literature, fiction, poetry, whatever, makes justice in the world. That's why it almost always has to be on the side of the underdog.
You have to really understand how people speak, and you have to reconstruct it ... Most pleasure in writing, you know, is in inventing.
The word career is a divisive word. It's a word that divides the normal life from business or professional life.
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.
I do lots of reading and speaking at many universities about literature and also about politics, which is as much a part of my life as the literature.
It is possible with only a little extra anguish
to live in this world at absolute [minimum?]
loving brainy sexual energetic redeemed
to live in this world at absolute [minimum?]
loving brainy sexual energetic redeemed
Let her live in the air,' said Peter. 'I bet you do. Let her love her body.'
'Let her,' said Anna sadly.
'Let her,' said Anna sadly.
I believe in a kind of fidelity to your own early ideas; it's a kind of antagonism in me to prevailing fads.
Hindsight, usually looked down upon, is probably as valuable as foresight, since it does include a few facts.
I read a lot. I liked a tremendous number of poets and writers. The person whose work I liked the most was Joyce.
People will sometimes say, "Why don't you write more politics?" And I have to explain to them that writing the lives of women IS politics.
I begin by writing paragraphs that don't have an immediate relation to a plot. The sound of the story comes first.
If I miss anything, it's being able to hang out in the city of New York meeting people and talking to them on the corner.