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Quotes from with Boston Review — Grace Paley

1922–2007 United States

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I think that any life that’s interesting, lived, has a lot of pulls in it.

with Boston Review (1976)

For me, somehow, the short story is very close to the poem in feeling and not so close in feeling to the novel, although it’s about the same people that a novel would be about.

with Boston Review (1976)

I write about things I don’t know all that well just to try and understand them. The act of writing is an investigative, learning act.

with Boston Review (1976)

children’s writing is so often so beautiful, because it’s so close to their own true tongues. On the other hand, it’s very boring because they have no experience in life.

with Boston Review (1976)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Grace Paley (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.