Paula Fox Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 22, 1923 - March 1, 2017

Topics

PeopleDoctorVoiceKnowWrite

I guess I'm attracted to more archaic words because they can be imbued with more meaning, because their definition is elusive.

Andrew Bird

WordsMeaningMoreBecauseElusive

You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

MemoriesEyesRealityYouYour

Trust is an amazing commodity. The Afghan people often talk to me about having to develop trust in America, because they believe that we deserted them in 1990 and 1991.

Stanley A. McChrystal

TrustPeopleAmazingMeBelieve

In my bachelor days, the priority wasn't learning to cook.

Rob Lowe

LearningBachelorDaysCookPriority

If you judge, investigate.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

JudgeYouInvestigate

I'm strong, I'm tough, I still wear my eyeliner.

Lisa Leslie

ToughStrongWearStill

I don't want to make fictional characters who are perfect - that's a vanilla situation - but the fact is you are allowed to more carefully select and curate what it is you're going to explore.

Debra Granik

YouPerfectSituationWantExplore

They used to be seen as insane or unthinkable acts of madmen. But if they take place they'll be called 'war' too. And there will still be no conventional war.

Bruce Sterling

WarPlaceWillTakeSeenUsed

People everywhere enjoy believing things that they know are not true. It spares them the ordeal of thinking for themselves and taking responsibility for what they know.

Brooks Atkinson

ResponsibilityPeopleThinkingEnjoy

I was drawn to people that were expressing feeling because that was what was taboo in my family, expressing feeling. And that was what I was made of.

Anohni

FamilyPeopleFeelingBecauseMade

I was eighteen when I first read Joseph Heller's stunning work 'Catch-22,' and was at that time close to being drafted for the fruitless and unenlightened war in Viet Nam.

Thomas Steinbeck

WorkTimeWarFirstEighteenBeing

I'm not really interested in creating things to be seen inside a private gallery. I'm interested in creating things that are all around us, that engage us. I just find the things that I respond to are useful.

Thomas Heatherwick

FindCreatingInsideEngageRespond

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by Paula Fox