Paul Auster Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)
Paul Auster quotes and sayings page 2 (77 year old author). Here's quote # 11 through 20 out of the 92 we have for him.
“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.”
“Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see where they are going to lead.”
“Chance is an element of life. What I try to do is study what I call the mechanics of reality as carefully as I can.”
“I like the sound a typewriter makes.”
“The funny thing is that I feel close to all my characters. Deep, deep inside them all.”
“I think if we didn't contradict ourselves, it would be awfully boring. It would be tedious to be alive.”
“I've always written by hand. Mostly with a fountain pen, but sometimes with a pencil - especially for corrections.”
“When you're young, you keep reading new writers and you keep changing your mind about how you ought to sound.”
“All through my writing life, I've had this impulse to write autobiographical works.”
“Holes in the memory. You grab on to some things, others have completely disappeared.”
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