I often see through things right to the apparition itself. Grace Paley More Quotes by Grace Paley More Quotes From 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 joycepoetnumbers My family were Russian Jews. They got you to read as soon as you could. And then assumed you would read a lot. People didn't really tell stories but they were good talkers. That's important for a writer, to hear speakers. Grace Paley importantstoriespeople I should have written more. I should have written more during the period when I just liked so much doing the political work in the streets. Grace Paley politicalperiodsshould-have My vocabulary is adequate for writing notes and keeping journals but absolutely useless for an active moral life. Grace Paley vocabularyuselesswriting I was fortunate that by the time I was born, there were a lot of comforts and at the same time I lived in a neighborhood where it was brought to my eyes every single day that people didn't live like me. Every day I knew that many of my friends "got relief." That was important in my thinking about the world, thinking that not everybody lived that way. Grace Paley eyepeoplethinking My mother went to demonstrations. I remember her going to a big demonstration for Earl Brower and she came home crying and said the Communists were very mean and booed their people. I remember feeling sad at her feeling sad. Grace Paley motherhomemean The women's movement was coming, but I didn't know it in 1956-1957, when I began to write. Grace Paley movementknowswriting I was a fantastic student until ten, and then my mind began to wander. Grace Paley fantasystudentsmind Write from what you know into what you don't know. Grace Paley craftsknowswriting I don't believe civilization can do a lot more than educate a person's senses. Grace Paley educationphilosophybelieve Paul Goodman was not ahead of his time but IN his time. Grace Paley goodman No metaphor reinvents the job of the nurture of children except to muddy or mock. Grace Paley metaphorjobschildren It's a terrible thing to die young. Still, it saves a lot of time. Grace Paley terriblestillsyoung I'm really sorry for people growing up right now, because they have some cockeyed idea that they can get by with their eyes closed; the cane they're tapping is money, and that won't take them in the right direction. Grace Paley growing-upeyesorry 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 womanmomentwomenbuilding A relationship with young people is very important to me. It's important to have a sense of what's going on in their world and not just in my own. So the opportunity teaching provides is a gift. Grace Paley meopportunityrelationshippeople 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 yourownyouwork 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 seewomenstrongtime Poets take themselves very seriously. Grace Paley themselvesseriouslyverytake 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 doingstorytogetherpeople
