Grace Paley
Grace Paley
Grace Paleywas an American short story writer, poet, teacher, and political activist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth11 December 1922
CountryUnited States of America
long erotic mind
You know the mind is an astonishing, long-living, erotic thing.
writing knows
We write about what we don't know about what we know....
writing numbers omission
I did write a number of reports on my political experiences, but there were many omissions, and I feel bad about that because it was work that was interesting and had I written more about it, it could have been useful.
writing add four
I might write four lines or I might write twenty. I subtract and I add until I really hit something I want to do. You don't always whittle down, sometimes you whittle up.
writing movement knows
The women's movement was coming, but I didn't know it in 1956-1957, when I began to write.
mind students fantasy
I was a fantastic student until ten, and then my mind began to wander.
writing crafts knows
Write from what you know into what you don't know.
goodman
Paul Goodman was not ahead of his time but IN his time.
jobs children metaphor
No metaphor reinvents the job of the nurture of children except to muddy or mock.
growing-up sorry eye
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.
couple children stories
I didn't intend to become a short-story writer. I became one because I finished a couple of short stories and realized that's what I wanted to do and could do with children and with all the other things in my life.
couple school kids
When I was about twenty-one, I published a few poems. Maybe I wrote a couple of stories before, but I really began to write stories in my mid-thirties. My kids were still little, and they were in school and day care, and I had begun to think a lot about wanting to tell some stories and not being able to do it in poetry.
numbers poet joyce
I read a lot. I liked a tremendous number of poets and writers. The person whose work I liked the most was Joyce.
jobs believe voice
I really believe one of the jobs of a writer is to stretch as far as you can into other voices.