It 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 FoxI 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 FoxImagination has to do with one's awareness of the reality of other people as well as of one's own reality. Imagination is a bridge between the provincialism of the self and the great world.
Paula Fox