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Young Quotes by Paul Auster

14 Young quotes by Paul Auster

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Paul Auster’s reflections on youth are tinged with his characteristic existential curiosity, pondering how early choices shape later stories. These 14 quotes provide a thoughtful, introspective look at the formative years without spelling out any single line.

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I guess the important thing for young writers is to read.

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I haven't done any translating for decades now. It's something I did when I was young.

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

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When you're young, you keep reading new writers and you keep changing your mind about how you ought to sound.

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Even in New York, there are a lot of very attractive girls pedaling around. That just happens to be one of the…

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Eighteen is a terrible age, and while I walked around with the conviction that I was somehow more grown-up than my classmates,…

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We grow older, but we do not change. We become more sophisticated, but at bottom we continue to resemble our young selves,…

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Most of my friends' fathers had been in the war - either as soldiers or in some other capacity in the military.…

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When young people say I want to be a novelist, I'd say, think very carefully about it. There will be very few…

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At that point, Noriko finally breaks down and begins to cry sobbing into her hands as the floodgates open - this young…

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I was always very curious as a young man about why older writers who I met seemed so indifferent to what was…

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In my life, I've lived in very different kinds of places - very tiny rooms when I was young. And you do…

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I'm not a boy-writer, I've never been. I wanted to be a boy-writer when I was young, and I think that held…

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Yes, she is in love with him, and yes, in spite of his qualms and inner hesitations, he loves her back, however…

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I'm not a man deeply interested in technology. It eludes me.

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I had made an empirical discovery and it carried all the weight of a mathematical proof.

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As long as there's one person to believe it, there's no story that can't be true.

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Writing has always had a tactile quality for me. It's a physical experience.

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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…

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

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Our lifelong certainties about the world can be demolished in a single second.

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The ideal reader's the same, and I suppose this person has never had a face or a gender or an age. It's just some…

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“Most lives vanish. A person dies, and little by little all traces of that life disappear. An inventor survives in his inventions, an architect…

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“and cut down many trees. When the Humans”

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