Quotes from Interview — Patricia Grace
born 1937 New Zealand
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7 quotes
Why is it that one set of stories is called "mythology", and another set of stories is called "the truth"?
Interview (1999)
Learning about each other is not as one-sided as it used to be.
Interview (2016)
I’ve always loved the short story form. Short stories are like little gems that you can keep polishing and polishing in your aim for perfection.
Interview (2016)
Though I had always liked books, any books, any written-down words or expressions, the ones I read as a child were always exotic. I never found myself in a book.
Interview (2021)
I wasn’t a very talkative child and I’m not a greatly talkative adult even, but I do enjoy listening to people, and language and how it’s used. It becomes part of my own store.
Interview (2016)
That’s what I like to do. I just start out and follow the characters.
Interview (2016)
In many stories blackness was equated with evil: devils, witches’ clothes, unlucky cats, bad wolves. New Zealand history was told from a Eurocentric point of view, if it was told at all.
Interview (2021)