Thinking Quotes by Paul Auster

How can you think about the world without factoring in the unforseen, the fluke event?

— Paul Auster

I'm living in the present, thinking about the past, hoping for the future.

— Paul Auster

I think human beings wouldn't be human without narrative fiction.

— Paul Auster

I think all writers are a bit crazy; Damaged souls, incapable of doing anything else.

— Paul Auster

Just think it, and chances are it will happen.

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I project myself so deeply into the characters in novels that I'm not thinking about my own life.

— Paul Auster

You tend to feel very hurt when people attack you and feel indifferent when you get praise. You think, 'Of course they…

— Paul Auster

The best filmmakers, I think, have always had very narrow frameworks for their stories, and then they can go deeply, rather than…

— Paul Auster

I don't think about the stories so much, as the characters themselves. They live on, and they are almost as real as…

— Paul Auster

I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn't think I could do…

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The most challenging project I've ever done, I think, is every single thing I've ever tried to do. It's never easy.

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I think there might be some pressure released while I'm doing autobiographical work, but afterwards everything remains the same.

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Something happens, Blue thinks, and then it goes on happening forever. It can never be changed, can never be otherwise.

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You think it will never happen to you, that it cannot happen to you, that you are the only person in the…

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I don't think of myself as a metafictional writer at all. I think of myself as a classic writer, a realist writer,…

— Paul Auster

I think people are trying out ideas with the new technology and it's too early to say where it's going exactly. But…

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I think the act of talking about something - with a friend, or someone in your family, or someone you care about,…

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A here exists only in relation to a there, not the other way around. There's this only because there's that; if we…

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I think most writers can't really think about their work without a kind of revulsion. And I think that's probably why we…

— Paul Auster

I was very moved to see that the name of the boat was Hamlet - an imaginary character becomes so important to…

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As long as a man had the courage to reject what society told him to do, he could live life on his…

— Paul Auster

I wanted to do something different. Therefore, the first person I thought would have been too exclusionary. It would have said me,…

— Paul Auster

My children haven't read 'Winter Journal'. They have read some of my work, but I really don't foist it on them. I…

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For example, when I was writing Leviathan, which was written both in New York and in Vermont - I think there were…

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I say at the very end of "Winter Journal" that I do dream about my father often. I think I have a…

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No one was to blame for what happened, but that does not make it any less difficult to accept. It was all…

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Each time he took a walk, he felt as though he were leaving himself behind, and by giving himself up to the…

— Paul Auster

Autobiographical writings, essays, interviews, various other things... All the non-fiction prose I wanted to keep, that was the idea behind this collected…

— Paul Auster

Generally, I don't want to do things. I feel lazy and unmotivated. It's only when an idea grabs hold of me and…

— Paul Auster

I think that sense of unreality inspired me to write the story within the book that [August] Brill tells himself, one of…

— Paul Auster

I think that's what turns young men and women into writers - the happiness you discover living in books.

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[Charles] Reznikoff was in between faiths, in between worlds... a double, hyphenated American. I think it probably goes deeper than that.

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

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I hate reading digital books. I don't enjoy the experience. I like smelling the paper, turning the pages. I think the book…

— Paul Auster

When I think of Tokyo Story, yeah, it is like a novella. That doesn't mean it's not great. Some of my favorite…

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It always stimulates me to discover new examples of my own prejudice and stupidity, to realize that I don't know half as…

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I think if we didn't contradict ourselves, it would be awfully boring. It would be tedious to be alive.

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The childhood scenes [ in The Tree of Life] are tremendous. My favorite moment is when the mother levitate - for three…

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I think I hate cynicism more than anything else. It's the curse of our age, and I want to avoid it at…

— Paul Auster

I do not repeat conversations that I can't remember. And it's something that irritates me a great deal, because I think most…

— Paul Auster