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Out Quotes by Paul Auster
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- As long as you are dreaming, there is always a way out
- Nobody asks you to do this. The world out there is not panting after another novelist. We choose it.
- All my novels are very much directly related to my inner life, even though I'm inventing characters, even though it's fiction, even though it's make-believe,…
- I think people are trying out ideas with the new technology and it's too early to say where it's going exactly. But again, whether it's…
- 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…
- That's all I've ever dreamed of, Mr. Bones. To make the world a better place. To bring some beauty to the drab humdrum corners of…
- In other words: It seems to me that I will always be happy in the place where I am not. Or, more bluntly: Wherever I…
- No one was to blame for what happened, but that does not make it any less difficult to accept. It was all a matter of…
- Stories without endings can do nothing but go on forever, and to be caught in one means that you must die before your part in…
- In general, lives seem to veer abruptly from one thing to another, to jostle and bump, to squirm. A person heads in one direction, turns…
- Solitary. But not in the sense of being alone. Not solitary in the way Thoreau was, for example, exiling himself in order to find out…
- I've been trying to fit everything in, trying to get to the end before it's too late, but I see now how badly I've deceived…
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- Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see… — Paul Auster
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster