All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad or peculiar. Grace Paley Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
