Paula Fox

“It was a dead hole, smelling of synthetic leather and disinfectant, both of which odors seemed to emanate from the torn scratched…

— Paula Fox

Life was an impenetrable mystery cloaked in babble.

— Paula Fox

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

— Paula Fox

Teachers inspire the smallest hearts to grow big enough to change the world.

— Paula Fox

My first job was working in a dress shop in Los Angeles in 1940, for $7 a week.

— Paula Fox

Families hold each other in an iron grip of definition. One must break the grip, somehow.

— Paula Fox

I was the goldfish that leapt out of the bowl.

— Paula Fox

And what movies we saw! All the actors and actresses whose photographs I collected, with their look of eternity! Their radiance, their…

— Paula Fox

When there's a terrible murder people who are interviewed say, 'This has always been a quiet neighborhood.' That is so dumb and…

— Paula Fox

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

— Paula Fox

I like to cook; it is, for me, a happy combination of mindlessness and purpose.

— Paula Fox

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…

— Paula Fox

“Suddenly drained of the nervous excitement which had made her forget momentarily her tiredness and the monochromatic dullness of this early morning,…

— Paula Fox

Labels not only free us from the obligation to think creatively; they numb our sensibilities, our power to feel. During the Vietnam…

— Paula Fox

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

— Paula Fox

I have a painter's memory. I can remember things from my childhood which were so powerfully imprinted on me, the whole scene…

— Paula Fox

There's a certain amount of tyranny in all of us to some extent, and in some people it's much more developed than…

— Paula Fox

“She'd been noticing the feet of colored people ever since she'd come south. "They've been pressed down to the earth so hard,"…

— Paula Fox

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

— Paula Fox

The language of labels is like paper money, issued irresponsibly, with nothing of intrinsic value behind it, that is, with no effort…

— Paula Fox

There was no way to grasp the reality of the present which slid away each second, invisible as air; reality only existed…

— Paula Fox

Freedom is a public library.

— Paula Fox

It was hard to reassure grown-ups when you weren't certain yourself what you were feeling and thinking—when thoughts dissolved before you could…

— Paula Fox

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

— Paula Fox