When there's a terrible murder people who are interviewed say, 'This has always been a quiet neighborhood.' That is so dumb and uninformed! The earth is not a quiet neighborhood. There isn't anyplace that's a quiet neighborhood. People are asking themselves how to stay neat in the cyclone.
Paula FoxIt was hard to reassure grown-ups when you weren't certain yourself what you were feeling and thinkingโwhen thoughts dissolved before you could name them.
Paula FoxWhen there's a terrible murder people who are interviewed say, 'This has always been a quiet neighborhood.' That is so dumb and uninformed! The earth is not a quiet neighborhood. There isn't anyplace that's a quiet neighborhood. People are asking themselves how to stay neat in the cyclone.
Paula FoxLiterature is the province of imagination, and stories, in whatever guise, are meditations on life.
Paula FoxWhen 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 FoxA year and a half after the end of the war and the German occupation, Paris was muted and looked bruised and forlorn. Everywhere I went, I sensed the tracks of the wolf that had tried to devour the city. But Paris proved inedible, as it had been ever since its tribal beginnings on an island in the Seine, the Ile de la Citรฉ.
Paula Fox