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Paula Fox quotes: A good novel begins with a small question and ends with a bigger one.

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

Paula Fox quotes: He smiled and bent forward, a hand on each knee, his truculence gleaming through his smile like a stone under water.

He smiled and bent forward, a hand on each knee, his truculence gleaming through his smile like a stone under water.

Paula Fox quotes: The truth came slowly like a story told by people interrupting each other.

The truth came slowly like a story told by people interrupting each other.

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

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

Paula Fox quotes: What is there to imagine with a gun?" asked Papa . . . ."Something dead," Papa said more quietly. "That's what there is to imagine with a gun.

What is there to imagine with a gun?" asked Papa . . . .
"Something dead," Papa said more quietly. "That's what there is to imagine with a gun.

Paula Fox quotes: Teachers inspire the smallest hearts to grow big enough to change the world.

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

Paula Fox quotes: Words are nets through which all truth escapes("News From The World")

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

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

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

Paula Fox quotes: Freedom is a public library.

Freedom is a public library.

Paula Fox quotes: 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.

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.

Paula Fox quotes: 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 the path.

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 the path.

Paula Fox quotes: I don't like to listen to music while I'm working.

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

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

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

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

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

Paula Fox quotes: Life is all getting used to what you're not used to.

Life is all getting used to what you're not used to.

Paula Fox quotes: How pleasant to read uncompromised by purpose.

How pleasant to read uncompromised by purpose.

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

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

Paula Fox quotes: There was nothing to imagine with a gun except something that was dead.

There was nothing to imagine with a gun except something that was dead.

Paula Fox quotes: When he sat on the Makepeace veranda, it was as if he'd gone to another country

When he sat on the Makepeace veranda, it was as if he'd gone to another country

Paula Fox quotes: I was the goldfish that leapt out of the bowl.

I was the goldfish that leapt out of the bowl.

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

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

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

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

Paula Fox quotes: Life was an impenetrable mystery cloaked in babble.

Life was an impenetrable mystery cloaked in babble.

Paula Fox quotes: A lie hides the truth. A story tries to find it.

A lie hides the truth. A story tries to find it.

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

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

Paula Fox quotes: 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.

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.