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
generations next meaning-of-life
For me, the meaning of life is the next generation.
jokes
A joke is necessary at this time.
goodman
Paul Goodman was not ahead of his time but IN his time.
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.
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.