“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.” Quote by Grace Paley
“It wasn't until I lived in the countryside that I began to understand the life of the countryside and the people in it and trees and water. Just learning about water is an education for a city person.” PeoplePersonsWaterCitiesTreeCountryside Author:Grace Paley
“I really believe one of the jobs of a writer is to stretch as far as you can into other voices.” BelieveJobsVoice Author:Grace Paley
“Sometimes before people know what they're saying, they already love the language.” PeopleKnowsSometimesLanguage Author:Grace Paley
“My job is to get people to write something truthful, something about truth and beauty - wherever they are - and to understand how literature is made. And then if they become great writers, that's great, and probably has nothing to do with me.” PeopleIfsWritingMadeJobsLiteratureTruthfulGreat WritersTruth And Beauty Author:Grace Paley
“I am very interested in people trying to write because I don't have a big academic background at all.” PeopleWritingTryingBigsBackgroundsAcademic Author:Grace Paley
“I don't have any degrees. I went to Hunter College one year and New York University another year. It's just on the basis of my books that I've been hired at any of the places I've been.” YearsBookNew YorkCollegeDegreesBasesUniversityHuntersAnother YearPlaces I've Been Author:Grace Paley
“I liked the education. I liked people learning things all around me and I liked going to people's classes.” PeopleClass Author: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.” FeelsPersonsStoriesSawsHappeningsObligationSixtySeventies Author: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.” ReadingLiteratureUniversity Author:Grace Paley
“A lot of sad things have happened to my friends' children, people you knew as babies. They've been killed or become crazy or all kinds of tragic things. There are some people whose children haven't talked to them in fifteen years. There's all kind of meshugaas in this world.” PeopleWorldYearsKindChildrenHappenedCrazyHavensThis WorldBabyMy FriendsAll KindsTragicFifteenFifteen YearsSad Things Author:Grace Paley