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Love Quotes by Paul Auster
- The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly.
- There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads.
- We are continually shaped by the forces of coincidence.
- You can't put your feet on the ground until you've touched the sky.
- If you're not ready for everything, you're not ready for anything.
- There's hope for everyone. That's what makes the world go round.
- Holes in the memory. You grab on to some things, others have completely disappeared.
- I can never say 'why' about anything I do. I suppose I can say 'how' and 'when' and 'what.' But 'why' is impenetrable to me.
- I guess the toughest things in translations are word play, which can never be reproduced exactly.
- I like the sound a typewriter makes.
- Some things get written more quickly than others, but I can't really measure degrees of difficulty.
- What used to keep me up at night was the fact that I didn't know how I was going to pay the rent. Now that…
- Paintings. Or the collapse of time in images.
- Every man is the author of his own life.
- I guess the important thing for young writers is to read.
- I had jumped off the edge, and then, at the very last moment, something reached out and caught me in midair. That something is what…
- Stories only happen to those who are able to tell them.
- It seems to me that I will always be happy in the place where I am not.
- Dismantling the architecture of my discontent
- ...once you fell in love with her, you loved her until the day you died.
- The story is not in the words; it's in the struggle.
- All children are love children, he said, but only the best ones are ever called that.
- Yes, she is in love with him, and yes, in spite of his qualms and inner hesitations, he loves her back, however improbable that might…
- Just think it, and chances are it will happen.
- He would conclude that nothing was real except chance.
More Love Quotes
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento
- When I was a teenager, I read a lot of Poe. — Dario Argento
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- I'm literally open to any medium that will have me. — J. J. Abrams
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide