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Paul Auster Quotes

Every historical moment needs the stories to be told about it Picture Quote #1

I guess the important thing for young writers is to read Picture Quote #1

The joke is the purest, most essential form of storytelling. Every word has to count Picture Quote #1

You can’t put your feet on the ground until you’ve touched the sky Picture Quote #1

It seems to me that I will always be happy in the place where I am not Picture Quote #1

We have missed him in the sunshine, in the storm, in the twilight, ever since Picture Quote #1

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... once you fell in love with her, you loved her until the day you died Picture Quote #1

All through my writing life, I’ve had this impulse to write autobiographical works Picture Quote #1

Holes in the memory. You grab on to some things, others have completely disappeared Picture Quote #1

I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets. That kind of spilled out into translation as a way to earn money, pay for food and put bread on the table Picture Quote #1

All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to make money however I could to keep myself going in some modest way, and I didn't need much, I was unmarried at the time, no children Picture Quote #1

Nobody asks you to do this. The world out there is not panting after another novelist. We choose it Picture Quote #1

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Even you, who’ve lived inside your body for 64 years, would apparently be unable to recognize your foot in an isolated photograph of that foot, not to think of your ear or one of your eyes or elbow, also familiar to you in the context of the whole, but utterly anonymous when taken piece by piece. We are all aliens to ourselves, and if we have any sense of who we are, it is only because we live inside the eyes of others Picture Quote #1

The most challenging project I’ve ever done, I think, is every single thing I’ve ever tried to do. It’s never easy Picture Quote #1

I’m not a man deeply interested in technology. It eludes me. I confess I don’t even have a computer, I don’t have a cell phone Picture Quote #1

The funny thing is that I feel close to all my characters. Deep, deep inside them all. I can’t describe how deeply I love them all Picture Quote #1

We hear things, but we can’t always see them, or, even if we do see them, we’re not sure that we’re seeing correctly. Hence: Invisible Picture Quote #1

Let me tell you, there’s no better medicine than a friendly card game for sloughing off the cares of a workaday world Picture Quote #1

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If the world weren’t such a beautiful place, we might all turn into cynics Picture Quote #1

Guilt kept me going. It was impossible not to blame myself for what had happened, but even guilt was a comfort. It was a human feeling, a sign that I was still attached to the same world that other men lived in Picture Quote #1

How is it possible for someone who believes that the world was created in six days to have a rational conversation with me, who doesnt believe that, about other possibilities? Picture Quote #1

History is present in all my novels. And whether I am directly talking about the sociological moment or just immersing my character in the environment, I am very aware of it Picture Quote #1

I woke up one day and thought: I want to write a book about the history of my body. I could justify talking about my mother because it was in her body that my body began Picture Quote #1

Some people are great, and they approach each work with honesty, and that’s wonderful. But when people have built up a sort of resentment or animosity for reasons that are hard to put your finger on, they read in bad faith Picture Quote #1

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I had made an empirical discovery and it carried all the weight of a mathematical proof Picture Quote #1

In the old physics, three times two equals six and two times three equals 6 are reversible propositions. Not in quantum physics. Three times two and two times three are two different matters, distinct and separate propositions Picture Quote #1

I don’t think that you can be prescriptive about anything, I mean, life is too complicated. Maybe there are novels where the author has not in the least thought about it in terms of film, which can be turned into good films Picture Quote #1

It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the voice on the other end asking for someone he was not Picture Quote #1

We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that’s the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate as personalities are the ones who lose that thread Picture Quote #1

You have to protect it too, you can’t let just any stupid person take it and do something demoralizing with it. At the same time, I don’t believe in being so rigid about controlling what happens either Picture Quote #1

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Every historical moment needs the stories to be told about it (Paul Auster Quotes) I guess the important thing for young writers is to read (Paul Auster Quotes) The joke is the purest, most essential form of storytelling. Every word has to count (Paul Auster Quotes) You can’t put your feet on the ground until you’ve touched the sky (Paul Auster Quotes) It seems to me that I will always be happy in the place where I am not (Paul Auster Quotes) We have missed him in the sunshine, in the storm, in the twilight, ever since (Paul Auster Quotes) ... once you fell in love with her, you loved her until the day you died (Paul Auster Quotes) All through my writing life, I’ve had this impulse to write autobiographical works (Paul Auster Quotes) Holes in the memory. You grab on to some things, others have completely disappeared (Paul Auster Quotes) I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets. That kind of spilled out into translation as a way to earn money, pay for food and put bread on the table (Paul Auster Quotes) All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to make money however I could to keep myself going in some modest way, and I didn't need much, I was unmarried at the time, no children (Paul Auster Quotes) Nobody asks you to do this. The world out there is not panting after another novelist. We choose it (Paul Auster Quotes) Even you, who’ve lived inside your body for 64 years, would apparently be unable to recognize your foot in an isolated photograph of that foot, not to think of your ear or one of your eyes or elbow, also familiar to you in the context of the whole, but utterly anonymous when taken piece by piece. We are all aliens to ourselves, and if we have any sense of who we are, it is only because we live inside the eyes of others (Paul Auster Quotes) The most challenging project I’ve ever done, I think, is every single thing I’ve ever tried to do. It’s never easy (Paul Auster Quotes) I’m not a man deeply interested in technology. It eludes me. I confess I don’t even have a computer, I don’t have a cell phone (Paul Auster Quotes) The funny thing is that I feel close to all my characters. Deep, deep inside them all. I can’t describe how deeply I love them all (Paul Auster Quotes) We hear things, but we can’t always see them, or, even if we do see them, we’re not sure that we’re seeing correctly. Hence: Invisible (Paul Auster Quotes) Let me tell you, there’s no better medicine than a friendly card game for sloughing off the cares of a workaday world (Paul Auster Quotes) If the world weren’t such a beautiful place, we might all turn into cynics (Paul Auster Quotes) Guilt kept me going. It was impossible not to blame myself for what had happened, but even guilt was a comfort. It was a human feeling, a sign that I was still attached to the same world that other men lived in (Paul Auster Quotes) How is it possible for someone who believes that the world was created in six days to have a rational conversation with me, who doesnt believe that, about other possibilities? (Paul Auster Quotes) History is present in all my novels. And whether I am directly talking about the sociological moment or just immersing my character in the environment, I am very aware of it (Paul Auster Quotes) I woke up one day and thought: I want to write a book about the history of my body. I could justify talking about my mother because it was in her body that my body began (Paul Auster Quotes) Some people are great, and they approach each work with honesty, and that’s wonderful. But when people have built up a sort of resentment or animosity for reasons that are hard to put your finger on, they read in bad faith (Paul Auster Quotes) I had made an empirical discovery and it carried all the weight of a mathematical proof (Paul Auster Quotes) In the old physics, three times two equals six and two times three equals 6 are reversible propositions. Not in quantum physics. Three times two and two times three are two different matters, distinct and separate propositions (Paul Auster Quotes) I don’t think that you can be prescriptive about anything, I mean, life is too complicated. Maybe there are novels where the author has not in the least thought about it in terms of film, which can be turned into good films (Paul Auster Quotes) It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the voice on the other end asking for someone he was not (Paul Auster Quotes) We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that’s the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate as personalities are the ones who lose that thread (Paul Auster Quotes) You have to protect it too, you can’t let just any stupid person take it and do something demoralizing with it. At the same time, I don’t believe in being so rigid about controlling what happens either (Paul Auster Quotes)

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