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Book Quotes by Paul Auster
- 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…
- You see, the interesting thing about books, as opposed, say, to films, is that it's always just one person encountering the book, it's not an…
- 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…
- I never experiment with anything in my books. Experimentation means you don't know what you're doing.
- No book includes the entire world. It's limited. And so it doesn't seem like an aesthetic compromise to have to do that. There's so much…
- The book that convinced me I wanted to be a writer was 'Crime and Punishment'. I put the thing down after reading it in a…
- Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story, when our mother or father…
- You find the book in the process of doing it. That's the adventure of the job.
- What better portrait of a writer than to show a man who has been bewitched by books?
- I think that's what turns young men and women into writers - the happiness you discover living in books.
- And that's why books are never going to die. It's impossible. It's the only time we really go into the mind of a stranger, and…
- Every life is inexplicable, I kept telling myself. No matter how many facts are told, no matter how many details are given, the essential thing…
- One should never underestimate the power of books.
- As long as a man had the courage to reject what society told him to do, he could live life on his own terms. To…
- Every book is an image of solitude. It is a tangible object that one can pick up, put down, open, and close, and its words…
- Escaping into a film is not like escaping into a book. Books force you to give something back to them, to exercise your intelligence and…
- The only person I knew how to be with now was myself - but I wasn´t really anyone, and I wasn´t really alive. I was…
- To care about words, to have a stake in what is written, to believe in the power of books - this overwhelms the rest, and…
- I don't know if she should worry too much, I mean some of our greatest writers have had movies made of their books, lots of…
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