Writer Quotes by Paula Fox

8 Writer quotes by Paula Fox

You’ll find eight short passages from Paula Fox that hint at the introspective, often unsettling worlds she builds. Though limited in number, they serve as a concise introduction to her nuanced storytelling.

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“‎How pleasant to read uncompromised by purpose.”

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When you read to a child, when you put a book in a child's hands, you are bringing that child news of…

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My father brought me a box of books once when I was about three and a half or four. I remember the…

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I don't know what makes a writer's voice. It's dozens of things. There are people who write who don't have it. They're…

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Literature is the province of imagination, and stories, in whatever guise, are meditations on life.

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In my early twenties, that's when I really began to write. Before that, I was too busy working, keeping myself going.

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Freedom is a public library.

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A good novel begins with a small question and ends with a bigger one.

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My life was incoherent to me. I felt it quivering, spitting out broken teeth.

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People steal into one's consciousness and occupy what seems, in retrospect, to have been their place all along.

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You'll see some bad things, but if you didn't see them, they'd still be happening.

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“I imagine there's a timid animal inside me...When it's afraid, I feel it tremble. It can't hear. It only knows the fear it feels.…

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I taught writing classes at the University of Pennsylvania for a number of years and I realized that all you can do is encourage…

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“Words are nets through which all truth escapes ("News From The World")”

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I don't like to listen to music while I'm working.

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Imagination has to do with one's awareness of the reality of other people as well as of one's own reality. Imagination is a bridge…

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“Imagination is conjunctive and unifying; the sour, habitual wars of the self are disjunctive and separating. When I begin a story at my desk,…

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If a person had accused him of meanness, he could have defended himself. But with a dog - you did something cheap to it…

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A year and a half after the end of the war and the German occupation, Paris was muted and looked bruised and forlorn. Everywhere…

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“You’ll see some bad things, but if you didn’t see them, they’d still be happening so you might as well.”

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When I had a few francs, I spent them at a café on the Place de Longchamps, a block or so from my pension,…

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I've always known a lot of very bad people, destructive, brutes of a certain kind. Then I've seen these lovely impulses and what not,…

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