That heartbreaking moment when you finish an amazing book, and you are forced to return to reality.
Grace PaleyI was fortunate that by the time I was born, there were a lot of comforts and at the same time I lived in a neighborhood where it was brought to my eyes every single day that people didn't live like me. Every day I knew that many of my friends "got relief." That was important in my thinking about the world, thinking that not everybody lived that way.
Grace PaleyI read a lot. I liked a tremendous number of poets and writers. The person whose work I liked the most was Joyce.
Grace Paley