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Books 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…
- I never experiment with anything in my books. Experimentation means you don't know what you're doing.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
More Books Quotes
- Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip. — Aristophanes
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my… — Isaac Asimov
- I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was, three shelves… — Sean Astin
- I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood
- Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the opera -… — Margaret Atwood
- Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in… — Margaret Atwood
- I have been known to buy e-versions of my books because I was in a hotel room and I needed one right… — Margaret Atwood
- I know that some books and some writers, you can pretty much draw a square around it and say, 'Nobody under 40,'… — Margaret Atwood
- If you feel that there's the author and then the character, then the book is not working. People have a habit of… — Margaret Atwood
- Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Although most products will soon be too costly to purchase, there will be a thriving market in the sale of books on… — Norman Ralph Augustine