Grace Paley Quotes

"The word career is a divisive word. It's a word that divides the normal life from business or professional life."
- Grace Paley
(Related: Business, Life, Career, Word)

"Let us go forth with fear and courage and rage to save the world."
- Grace Paley
(Related: Fear, Courage, World)

"I was a fantastic student until ten, and then my mind began to wander."
- Grace Paley
(Related: Mind)

"I often see through things right to the apparition itself."
- Grace Paley
(Related: Right)

"I don't believe civilization can do a lot more than educate a person's senses."
- Grace Paley
(Related: Civilization, Senses)

"I believe in a kind of fidelity to your own early ideas; it's a kind of antagonism in me to prevailing fads."
- Grace Paley
(Related: Ideas, Fidelity)

"All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad or peculiar."
- Grace Paley
(Related: Life, Survival, Interest)

"You become a writer because you need to become a writer - nothing else."
- Grace Paley
(Related: Nothing, Writer)