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Paula Fox (April 22, 1923 – March 1, 2017) was an American author 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 also won several awards for particular children's books including the 1974 Newbery Medal for her novel The Slave Dancer;[b] a 1983 National Book Award in category Children's Fiction (paperback) for A Place Apart;[c] and the 2008 Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis for A Portrait of Ivan (1969) in its German-language edition Ein Bild von Ivan.[d]

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When I had a few francs, I spent them at a café on the Place de Longchamps, a block or so from my pension, where I could order a glass of Beaujolais and a plate of string beans in vinaigrette for the equivalent of fifteen cents.

Beans, Block, Equivalent, Glasses, Order, Spent

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

Busy, Keeping, Twenties, Writing

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

1940, Dresses, Firsts, Jobs, Shop, Week

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.

Book, Bringing, Children, Hands, News, Reading

The truth came slowly like a story told by people interrupting each other.

Came, Interrupting, People, Stories, Told, Truth

Labels not only free us from the obligation to think creatively; they numb our sensibilities, our power to feel. During the Vietnam War, the phrase body count entered our vocabulary. It is an ambiguous phrase, inorganic, even faintly sporty. It distanced us from the painful reality of corpses, of dead, mutilated people.

Mutilated, Obligation, Power, Reality, Thinking, War

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 they've stayed with me and comforted me.

Kind, Known, Lovely, People

Life is all getting used to what you're not used to.

Life, Life Is, Used

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

Bad, Happenings, Ifs, See, Stills, Things

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

Bigger, Ends, Novel, Small

Life was an impenetrable mystery cloaked in babble.

Babble, Cloaked, Impenetrable, Life, Mystery

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.

Childhood, Imprinted, Memories, Memory, Remember, Things

When 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.

Desk, Encouragement, Make, Motivational, Stories, Walk

Imagination 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.

Bridge, Bridges, Imagination, Reality, Self

My life was incoherent to me. I felt it quivering, spitting out broken teeth.

Broken, Felt, Life, Spitting, Teeth

The language of labels is like paper money, issued irresponsibly, with nothing of intrinsic value behind it, that is, with no effort of the intelligence to see, to really apprehend.

Apprehend, Effort, Intrinsic, Labels, Paper, Value

To be human is to be in a story.

Human, Humans, Stories, Story

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 illustrations by Newell C. Wyeth.

Book, Box, Father, Half, Illustration, Illustrations

If a person had accused him of meanness, he could have defended himself. But with a dog - you did something cheap to it when you were sure no one was looking, and it was as though you had done it in front of a mirror.

Dog, Done, Looking, Mirror, Mirrors

It was hard to reassure grown-ups when you weren't certain yourself what you were feeling and thinking—when thoughts dissolved before you could name them.

Certain, Feelings, Names, Reassure, Thinking, Thoughts

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