Grace Paley Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“I don't believe civilization can do a lot more than educate a person's senses.”

“I often see through things right to the apparition itself.”

“The word career is a divisive word. It's a word that divides the normal life from business or professional life.”

“Everyone, real or invented, deserves the open destiny of life.”

“I didn't write any fiction until I was past thirty.”

“Whatever you do, life don't stop. It only sits a minute and dreams a dream.”

“You become a writer because you need to become a writer - nothing else.”

“You have to really understand how people speak, and you have to reconstruct it... Most pleasure in writing, you know, is in inventing.”

“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.”

“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.”