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
interesting people use
Good talkers are people who use interesting language and have a lot of energy in speech and who also listen.
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.
young terrible stills
It's a terrible thing to die young. Still, it saves a lot of time.
country war america
When you have a peace movement that has an actual war, it's different from one that has wars that our country is not totally involved in. During the war in Vietnam, and to a lesser degree the wars in Central America where our country was directly involved, it was easier to organize.
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.
children parks pressure
In the park I met other women and I started to get interested in their lives. I developed a lot of pressure to talk about women's lives, and children's lives, too. Children interest me tremendously.
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.
cities people water
It wasn't until I lived in the countryside that I began to understand the life of the countryside and the people in it and trees and water. Just learning about water is an education for a city person.
pages seven novel
I've started many novels, and they all ended on page seven.
plain though
In prose, I think you sometimes have to write in very plain language, where every line may not seem to be so important, though in all writing every line is important.