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10 quotes by Paula Fox

Paula Fox (born April 22, 1923) is an American writer of novels for adults and children and of two memoirs. For her contributions as a children's writer she won the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1978, the highest international recognition for a creator of children's books. She has also won several awards for particular children's books including the 1974 Newbery Medal for her novel The Slave Dancer; a 1983 National...
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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... →

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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... →

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

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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... →

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

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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.

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

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

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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... →

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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 in and the covers with... →

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