All Paul Auster Quotes
- 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… Compelling
- The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly. Autobiographical
- There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads. Alone
- We are continually shaped by the forces of coincidence. Coincidence
- Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. Breathing
- You can't put your feet on the ground until you've touched the sky. Feet
- 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… Construct
- Even in New York, there are a lot of very attractive girls pedaling around. That just happens to be one of the nice sights in… Attractive
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them up with great… Beings
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods, most of which… Anti
- I don't think of myself as a metafictional writer at all. I think of myself as a classic writer, a realist writer, who tends to… All
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come back, I needed… America
- I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn't think I could do anything else. So… Age
- I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was about 30 that… All
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets. That kind of… Always Interested
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then I type it… Able
- It's extremely difficult to get these jobs because you can't get a job on a ship unless you have seaman's paper's, and you can't get… Arranged
- All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to make money however… All
- If you're not ready for everything, you're not ready for anything. Inspirational
- It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the voice on the other end… Asking