Paul Auster Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)
Paul Auster quotes and sayings page 5 (77 year old author). Here's quote # 41 through 50 out of the 92 we have for him.
“I think it's a very good thing to leave your country and look at it from afar.”
“The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly.”
“What keeps me up at night? Anxiety. Anxiety, the inability to go to sleep, it's quite literally that.”
“I think I hate cynicism more than anything else. It's the curse of our age, and I want to avoid it at all costs.”
“Money's important. Everyone cares about money. And when you don't have money, money becomes the overriding obsession of your life.”
“The kind of fiction I'm trying to write is about telling the truth.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Becoming a writer is not a 'career decision' like becoming a doctor or a policeman. You don't choose it so much as get chosen, and once you accept the fact that you're not fit for anything else, you have to be prepared to walk a long, hard road for the rest of your days.”
“I'm really trying to dredge up what one might call intellectual and moral material. For example, when do you realize that you are an American? What age does that happen to you? When do you realize what religion your parents practice? When does it all become conscious? I was interested in exploring all of that.”
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