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Paul Auster Quote: “Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story, when our mother or father would sit down beside us in the semi-dark and read from a book of fairy tales.”
Paul Auster Quote: “Wounds are an essential part of life, and until you are wounded in some way, you cannot become a man.”
Paul Auster Quote: “There’s a difference between doing memoir and writing a novel. If I had put the story of the boy killing my dog – and that was Eric also, what a little monster he was! – in a novel, even if I took it directly from life, it would be fiction.”
Paul Auster Quote: “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 Quote: “Adolescence feeds on drama, it is most happy when living in extremis, and Ferguson was no less vulnerable to the lure of high emotion and extravagant unreason than any other boy his age...”
Paul Auster Quote: “To feel estranged from language is to lose your own body.”
Paul Auster Quote: “This is what is called speaking. I believe that is the term. When words come out, fly into the air, live for a moment, and die. Strange, is it not? I myself have no opinion. No and no again. But still, there are words you will need to have. There are many of them. Many millions, I think. Perhaps only three or four. Excuse me. But I am doing well today. So much better than usual. If I can give you the words you need to have, it will be a great victory. Thank you. Thank you a million times over.”
Paul Auster Quote: “I stood up from my seat and made my way for the exit downstairs. Outside, the early evening assaulted me with light, surrounded me with sudden warmth. This is what I deserve, I said to myself. I’ve made my nothing, and now I’ve got to live in it.”
Paul Auster Quote: “I have always been a plodder, a person who anguishes and struggles over each sentence, and even on my best days I do no more than inch along, crawling on my belly like a man lost in the desert. The smallest word is surrounded by acres of silence for me, and even after I manage to get that word down on the page, it seems to sit there like a mirage, a speck of doubt glimmering in the sand.”
Paul Auster Quote: “For it is only in the darkness of solitude that the work of memory begins.”
Paul Auster Quote: “I think if we didn’t contradict ourselves, it would be awfully boring. It would be tedious to be alive.”
Paul Auster Quote: “Time moved in two directions because every step into the future carried a memory of the past.”
Paul Auster Quote: “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 Quote: “For a man who finds life tolerable only by staying on the surface of himself, it is natural to be satisfied with offering no more than this surface to others.”
Paul Auster Quote: “All my novels are very much directly related to my inner life, even though I’m inventing characters, even though it’s fiction, even though it’s make-believe, it nevertheless is coming out of the deepest recesses of myself.”
Paul Auster Quote: “He learned how to look at himself from a distance, to see himself first of all as a man among other men, then as a collection of random particles of matter, and finally as a single speck of dust – and the farther he traveled from his point of origin, she said, the closer he came to achieving greatness.”
Paul Auster Quote: “His mother’s name was Rose, and when he was big enough to tie his shoes and stop wetting the bed, he was going to marry her.”
Paul Auster Quote: “It’s a mind going over things, revisiting things, maybe trying to refine the original perception. You have to keep going a thing over in order to make sense off it.”
Paul Auster Quote: “Surely it is an odd way to spend your life – sitting alone in a room with a pen in your hand, hour after hour, day after day, year after year, struggling to put words on pieces of paper in order to give birth to what does not exist, except in your head. Why on earth would anyone want to do such a thing? The only answer I have ever been able to come up with is: because you have to, because you have no choice.”
Paul Auster Quote: “I was very moved to see that the name of the boat was Hamlet – an imaginary character becomes so important to people, we think about them so much that we name a ship after them. The imaginary lives on in the real.”
Paul Auster Quote: “You find the book in the process of doing it. That’s the adventure of the job.”
Paul Auster Quote: “Only God can see the main road and the back road at the same time – which means that only God can know if you made the right choice or the wrong choice.”
Paul Auster Quote: “The things we remember are often things that have great emotional importance, and so they have a lasting effect.”
Paul Auster Quote: “Please, go ahead and improve society if you can, but meanwhile people are suffering, and I have a job to do.”
Paul Auster Quote: “Most people are participating in the grand adventure of living with one another.”
Paul Auster Quote: “There’s an imp inside me, and if I don’t let him out to make some mischief now and then, the world just gets too damned dull. I hate feeling grumpy and bored. I’m an enthusiast, and the more dangerous my life becomes, the happier I am.”
Paul Auster Quote: “Entrances do not become exits, and there is nothing to guarantee that the door you walked through a moment ago will still be there when you turn around to look for it again.”
Paul Auster Quote: “I don’t think of myself as a metafictional writer at all. I think of myself as a classic writer, a realist writer, who tends to have flights of fancy at times, but nevertheless, my feet are mostly on the ground.”
Paul Auster Quote: “This came as a revelation, and when I finally had time to absorb it, I wondered how I had managed to live so long without learning this simple thing. I am not talking about desire so much as knowledge, the discovery that two people, through desire, can create a thing more powerful than either of them can create alone. This knowledge changed me, I think, and actually made me feel more human. By belonging to Sophie, I began to feel as though I belonged to everyone else as well.”
Paul Auster Quote: “Our lives are no more than the sum of manifold contingencies, and no matter how diverse they might be in their details, they all share an essential randomness in their design: this then that, and because of that, this.”
Paul Auster Quote: “The rampant, totally mystifying force of contradiction. I understand now that each fact is nullified by the next fact, that each thought engenders an equal and opposite thought. Impossible to say anything without reservation.”
Paul Auster Quote: “Put something in the wrong place, and even though it is still there – quite possibly smack under your nose – it can vanish for the rest of time.”
Paul Auster Quote: “A good sense of humor, then, a taste for the ironies of life, and an appreciation of the absurd.”
Paul Auster Quote: “From poetry to justice, then. Poetic justice, if you will. For the sad fact remains: there is far more poetry in the world than justice.”
Paul Auster Quote: “This is the kind of room poets are supposed to work in, the kind of room that threatens to break your spirit and forces you into constant battle with yourself.”
Paul Auster Quote: “It would be a terrible world if everyone was an artist. Nothing would get done!”
Paul Auster Quote: “For the fact is that it takes a great deal of self-confidence for a person to poke fun at himself, and a person with that kind of self-confidence is rarely a fool or a bungler.”
Paul Auster Quote: “Brooklyn has a bit of everything – some of the most beautiful things in America, and some of the most wretched, ugly, impoverished things.”
Paul Auster Quote: “The grinding search for money can crush the spirit out of you unless you’re made of steel.”
Paul Auster Quote: “Having made films, I know very well that the scope of the average 90- to 120-minute movie is about the same narrative heft as a long short story or a novella.”
Paul Auster Quote: “I never experiment with anything in my books. Experimentation means you don’t know what you’re doing.”
Paul Auster Quote: “I’ve found that writing novels is an all-absorbing experience – both physical and mental – and I have to do it every day in order to keep the rhythm, to keep myself focused on what I’m doing.”
Paul Auster Quote: “As a poet or a novelist or a painter, you are pushing yourself all the time, always looking for a new way to approach something, challenging yourself and never, never trying to write the same book twice.”
Paul Auster Quote: “Don’t be a writer; it’s a terrible way to live your life. There’s nothing to be gained from it but poverty and obscurity and solitude. So if you have a taste for all those things, which means that you really are burning to do it, then go ahead and do it. But don’t expect anything from anybody.”
Paul Auster Quote: “At fifty-seven, I felt old. Now, at seventy-four, I feel much younger than I did then.”
Paul Auster Quote: “I’ve learned not to look at reviews. Early on, I did. I was always curious.”
Paul Auster Quote: “I think human beings wouldn’t be human without narrative fiction.”
Paul Auster Quote: “I do not repeat conversations that I can’t remember. And it’s something that irritates me a great deal, because I think most memoirs are false novels.”
Paul Auster Quote: “One of the odd things about being himself... was that there seemed to be several of him, that he wasn’t just one person but a collection of contradictory selves, and each time he was with a different person, he himself was different as well.”
Paul Auster Quote: “That is the idea he is toying with, Renzo says, to write an essay about the things that don’t happen, the lives not lived, the wars not fought, the shadow worlds that run parallel to the world we take to be the real world, the not-said and the not-done, the not-remembered.”
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