"When I began to write in the 1970s there were three women I considered my elders: Katerina Mataira, Arapera Blank and…"

"It's as though the pushing outward allows understanding to drop down-as though you've given words, ideas, sometimes c…"

"I think that with writing, every experience is important; everything that happens around us or near us or inside us, …"

"Grace's stories make a shining and enduring place formed of the brilliant weave of Maori oral storytelling and contai…"

"Patricia Grace's writing is as delicate as Japanese brushwork, yet as poignant and throat-aching as the loss of a lov…"

"(What would you say is the main motivating factor that keeps you writing?) PG: I keep wanting to explore, that's prob…"

"Autumn bends the lights of summer and spreads evening skies with reds and golds. These colours are taken up by fallin…"

"The city was a great loom weaving its tangles and tufts of people into haphazard multicoloured fabric."

"I never found myself in a book. The children I read about lived in other countries, lands of snow and robins. Sometim…"

"I found this to be a way that works for me--placing myself at the centre, keeping characters and ideas close, and fro…"