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. (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 the infinitely varied nature of life. You are an awakener.

Paula Fox

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 they've stayed with me and comforted me.

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

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 they're very fluent. It's an ability, like anything else, being a doctor or a veterinarian, or a musician.

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 comes back.

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 in others. It's a different balance which makes us all different.

Paula Fox

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

Paula Fox

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

Paula Fox

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

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 people and give them assignments and hope they will write them. (Paula Fox)

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

Paula Fox

Paula Fox

Occupation: American Author
Born: April 22, 1923
Died: March 1, 2017
Quotes count: 12

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