78 Quotes by 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.

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

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.

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

You know there isn’t much to do in life once you fall though the surface of things.

She was thinking of the advantages she would have if only she were someone else.

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

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

There’s something flabby about teaching in a place like this,” He said. “If you don’t have to exert yourself once in a while, you begin–or at least I do–to feel like a headwaiter leading people to the second-best table.