All Paula Fox Quotes
- A lie hides the truth. A story tries to find it. Find
- Families hold each other in an iron grip of definition. One must break the grip, somehow. Break
- The density of people in society is so thick that we forget that life will end one day. And we don't know when that one-day… Care
- I was the goldfish that leapt out of the bowl. Bowl
- I don't like to listen to music while I'm working. Funny
- I have a painter's memory. I can remember things from my childhood which were so powerfully imprinted on me, the whole scene comes back. Childhood
- I like to cook; it is, for me, a happy combination of mindlessness and purpose. Combination
- In my early twenties, that's when I really began to write. Before that, I was too busy working, keeping myself going. Began
- My first job was working in a dress shop in Los Angeles in 1940, for $7 a week. Angeles
- 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 tone-deaf, even though… Ability
- I taught writing classes at the University of Pennsylvania for a number of years and I realized that all you can do is encourage people… All
- 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, and… Always Known
- My father brought me a box of books once when I was about three and a half or four. I remember the carton they were… Book
- There's a certain amount of tyranny in all of us to some extent, and in some people it's much more developed than in others. It's… All
- When I begin a story at my desk, the window to my back, the path is not there. As I start to walk, I make… Begin
- When you read to a child, when you put a book in a child's hands, you are bringing that child news of the infinitely varied… Awakener
- 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 name them. Certain
- Literature is the province of imagination, and stories, in whatever guise, are meditations on life. Educational
- A good novel begins with a small question and ends with a bigger one. Begins
- You'll see some bad things, but if you didn't see them, they'd still be happening. Bad
- There was no way to grasp the reality of the present which slid away each second, invisible as air; reality only existed after the fact,… Air
- The minute you become conscious that you are doing good, that's the minute you have to stop because from then on it's wrong. Become Conscious