Bigger Quote by Paula Fox Download Open image “A good novel begins with a small question and ends with a bigger one.” — Paula Fox ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bigger Books Ends Novel
Whenever I start a novel, I'm always looking for two things: a bit of science that makes me go 'what if?' and a piece… — James Rollins Copy Share Image
but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
A novel is challenging, because you have more story than you need and you have to select and narrow. — Peter Hedges Copy Share Image
“A person is a novel: you don't know how it will end until the very last page. Otherwise, it wouldn't be worth reading to… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
I prefer a great novel, but many novels come with a bunch of novel-y writerliness that feels sort of macho to me, so I… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
When I work on a book, I usually start with a question. And I don't sit around and go "I need to write a… — Lynda Barry Copy Share Image
My life was incoherent to me. I felt it quivering, spitting out broken teeth. — Paula Fox Copy Share Image
People steal into one's consciousness and occupy what seems, in retrospect, to have been their place all along. — Paula Fox Copy Share Image
You'll see some bad things, but if you didn't see them, they'd still be happening. — Paula Fox Copy Share Image
“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.… — Paula Fox Copy Share Image
I taught writing classes at the University of Pennsylvania for a number of years and I realized that all you can do is encourage… — Paula Fox Copy Share Image
“Words are nets through which all truth escapes ("News From The World")” — Paula Fox Copy Share Image
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… — Paula Fox Copy Share Image
“Imagination is conjunctive and unifying; the sour, habitual wars of the self are disjunctive and separating. When I begin a story at my desk,… — Paula Fox Copy Share Image
If a person had accused him of meanness, he could have defended himself. But with a dog - you did something cheap to it… — Paula Fox Copy Share Image
A year and a half after the end of the war and the German occupation, Paris was muted and looked bruised and forlorn. Everywhere… — Paula Fox Copy Share Image
“You’ll see some bad things, but if you didn’t see them, they’d still be happening so you might as well.” — Paula Fox Copy Share Image
The bigger the canvas, the better I do. I'm not so good at understated, kitchen-sink kinds of parts. — Christopher Reeve Copy Share Image
I've seen guys come along with more ability - they've been faster or bigger or stronger - but they never worked hard to develop… — Steve Largent Copy Share Image
I have always been a big meta guy because I think the way journalism is practiced in Washington, and the way everyone sort of… — Mark Leibovich Copy Share Image
In China, people are moving from bigger cars to small hatches, and interestingly, the Indian market is graduating to bigger cars and sedans. I… — Winfried Vahland Copy Share Image
Can you imagine any better example of divine creative accomplishment that the consummate flying machine that is a bird? The skeleton, very flexible and… — Guy Murchie Copy Share Image
I just think structure can make a book feel so much bigger. It's the architecture. You could use flimsy materials if you wanted to,… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
I've always thought that the most extraordinary special effect you could do is to buy a child at the moment of its birth, sit… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
Max—you have a bigger mission than finding the flock's parents. Focus on helping the whole world, not just your friends. I held my wings… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
Sometimes people can write really great scenes and even a great episode, but they can't see the bigger picture. — M. Night Shyamalan Copy Share Image
Never be too busy for the people you love. Never allow pursuits or possessions to become bigger priorities than your relationships. Love is what… — Dave Willis Copy Share Image
If you consider yourself a part of the culture, then finances can't allow you to be bigger than the actual art form. — Curtis Jackson Copy Share Image