Books Quote by Paula Fox

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

— Paula Fox

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

— Paula Fox

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

— Paula Fox

“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

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

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

— Paula Fox

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

— Paula Fox

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

“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

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

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

“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