I don’t believe civilization can do a lot more than educate a person’s senses. Grace Paley Read Quote
I developed a definition – which I think becomes less and less accurate as poetry moves into the world – that poetry was a way of speaking to the world, but fiction was a way to get the world to speak to me. Grace Paley Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote