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

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

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

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

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

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

"The days before my wedding were full and busy ones but more so for my mother than for any of us. It was summer, with …"

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

"To get back to writing the 'ordinary lives of ordinary people'. This is what I believed I was doing when I wrote Poti…"

"This first part of the story is about two sisters, Ngarua and Maraenohonoho, who quarrelled over a canoe."