Grace Paley Quotes: top 64 famous quotes about Grace Paley

Grace Paley Quotes & Sayings

Happy to read and share the best inspirational Grace Paley quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.

Everyone, real or invented, deserves the open destiny of life. — Grace Paley

Art's too long and life's too short. — Grace Paley

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. — Grace Paley

That heartbreaking moment when you finish an amazing book, and you are forced to return to reality. — Grace Paley

You write from what you know but you write into what you don't know. — Grace Paley

Good talkers are people who use interesting language and have a lot of energy in speech and who also listen. — Grace Paley

I really believe one of the jobs of a writer is to stretch as far as you can into other voices. — Grace Paley

You come to doing what you do by not being able to do something. — Grace Paley

Whatever you do, life don't stop. It only sits a minute and dreams a dream. — Grace Paley

If you want to do things, do things. — 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

I was a fantastic student until ten, and then my mind began to wander. — Grace Paley

(Interested in being a better writer? Go buy yourself a copy of The Collected Stories by Grace Paley.) The — Ann Patchett

There is a long time in me between knowing and telling. — 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

No metaphor reinvents the job of the nurture of children except to muddy or mock. — Grace Paley

Literature, fiction, poetry, whatever, makes justice in the world. That's why it almost always has to be on the side of the underdog. — Grace Paley

Don't outline your stories. A lot of fiction workshops say you should. I say the opposite. I quote Grace Paley: "We write what we don't know we know." — Andre Dubus

Waves, once they land on the beach, are not reversible. — Grace Paley

Who cares?' said Judy, who didn't care. — Grace Paley

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. — 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

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

Paul Goodman was not ahead of his time but IN his time. — Grace Paley

You become a writer because you need to become a writer - nothing else. — Grace Paley

Poets take themselves very seriously. — Grace Paley

Write what will stop your breath if you don't write. — Grace Paley

A joke is necessary at this time. — Grace Paley

The women's movement was coming, but I didn't know it in 1956-1957, when I began to write. — 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

The men don't like their wives so much. They only get married if it's a good idea." Faith — Grace Paley

I write for the still, small possibility of justice. — Grace Paley

We write about what we don't know about what we know ... — Grace Paley

In the end, long life is the reward, strength, and beauty. — Grace Paley

Sometimes, walking with a friend, I forget the world. — Grace Paley

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. — Grace Paley

Rosiness is not a worse windowpane than gloomy gray when viewing the world. — Grace Paley

You know the mind is an astonishing, long-living, erotic thing. — Grace Paley

The younger people with the ache of youth were eating all the cheese. — Grace Paley

I read a lot. I liked a tremendous number of poets and writers. The person whose work I liked the most was Joyce. — Grace Paley

The only recognizable feature of hope is action. — Grace Paley

It's a terrible thing to die young. Still, it saves a lot of time. — Grace Paley

For me, the meaning of life is the next generation. — Grace Paley

It is possible with only a little extra anguish
to live in this world at absolute [minimum?]
loving brainy sexual energetic redeemed — Grace Paley

I've started many novels, and they all ended on page seven. — Grace Paley

Write from what you know into what you don't know. — Grace Paley

Sometimes you find that what is most personal is also what connects you most strongly with others. — Grace Paley

Remembering is organized for significance (not usefulness) — Grace Paley

Let her live in the air,' said Peter. 'I bet you do. Let her love her body.'
'Let her,' said Anna sadly. — 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

I often see through things right to the apparition itself. — Grace Paley

Art is too long, and life is too short, — Grace Paley

The wrong word is like a lie jammed inside the story. — Grace Paley

Hindsight, usually looked down upon, is probably as valuable as foresight, since it does include a few facts. — Grace Paley

Women should stick together. Didn't you learn anything yet? — Grace Paley

Sometimes before people know what they're saying, they already love the language. — Grace Paley

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. — Grace Paley

To translate a poem from thinking into English takes all night. — Grace Paley

I begin by writing paragraphs that don't have an immediate relation to a plot. The sound of the story comes first. — Grace Paley

I don't believe civilization can do a lot more than educate a person's senses. — Grace Paley

Let us go forth with fear and courage and rage to save the world. — Grace Paley

My vocabulary is adequate for writing notes and keeping journals but absolutely useless for an active moral life. — 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 didn't write any fiction until I was past thirty. — Grace Paley