Paul Auster Quotes & Sayings
92 most famous Paul Auster quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for him. He's a 77 year old American author born on Feb 3, 1947.
“The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In some ways we are, in some ways we're not. We are ruled by the forces of chance and coincidence.”
“You can't put your feet on the ground until you've touched the sky.”
“It's extremely difficult to get these jobs because you can't get a job on a ship unless you have seaman's paper's, and you can't get seaman's papers unless you have a job on a ship. There had to be a way to break through the circle, and he was the one who arranged it for me.”
“We are continually shaped by the forces of coincidence.”
“Changing your mind is probably one of the most beautiful things people can do. And I've changed my mind about a lot of things over the years.”
“I'm living in the present, thinking about the past, hoping for the future.”
“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.”
“If you're not ready for everything, you're not ready for anything.”
“Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.”
“Children, I mean, think of your own childhood, how important the bedtime story was. How important these imaginary experiences were for you. They helped shape reality, and I think human beings wouldn't be human without narrative fiction.”
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