Paul Auster Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“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.”

“I barely can go shopping for clothes. I find it difficult to walk into stores. The whole thing bores me so much.”

“People look at the same passage, and one person will say this is the best thing he's ever read, and another person will say it's absolutely idiotic. I mean, there's no way to reconcile those two things. You just have to forget the whole business of what people are saying.”

“When you pick up a book, everyone knows it's imaginary. You don't have to pretend it's not a book. We don't have to pretend that people don't write books. That omniscient third-person narration isn't the only way to do it. Once you're writing in the first person, then the narrator is a writer.”

“There's hope for everyone. That's what makes the world go round.”

“Every generation always thinks it was better before, and I think people have been saying this for probably thousands of years.”

“I really do feel part of America to my very bones; at the same time, I know that I come from somewhere else.”

“Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing.”

“Each book I've done somehow finds its own unique form, a specific way it has to be written, and once I find it, I stick with it.”

“For me, a paragraph in a novel is a bit like a line in a poem. It has its own shape, its own music, its own integrity.”