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.
optimistic views world
Rosiness is not a worse windowpane than gloomy gray when viewing the world.
should-have political periods
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.
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.
sometimes
Sometimes you find that what is most personal is also what connects you most strongly with others.
brother years luck
I'm seventy-five now. I also have the peculiar luck of having a sister and brother who are fourteen and sixteen years older than me. Their health is not good. It couldn't be at that age. But their spirits are. Both my brother and my sister are an example to me.
lying stories wrong-words
The wrong word is like a lie jammed inside the story.
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.
apparitions
I often see through things right to the apparition itself.
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.
education philosophy believe
I don't believe civilization can do a lot more than educate a person's senses.