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Thinking Quotes by Paul Auster
- 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…
- 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…
- Every generation always thinks it was better before, and I think people have been saying this for probably thousands of years.
- I think I hate cynicism more than anything else. It's the curse of our age, and I want to avoid it at all costs.
- I think if we didn't contradict ourselves, it would be awfully boring. It would be tedious to be alive.
- I've dealt with numbers all my life, of course, and after a while you begin to feel that each number has a personality of its…
- I think that's what turns young men and women into writers - the happiness you discover living in books.
- I don't think that you can be prescriptive about anything, I mean, life is too complicated. Maybe there are novels where the author has not…
- Even you, who’ve lived inside your body for 64 years, would apparently be unable to recognize your foot in an isolated photograph of that foot,…
- The most challenging project I've ever done, I think, is every single thing I've ever tried to do. It's never easy.
- I think human beings wouldn't be human without narrative fiction.
- 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…
- Each time he took a walk, he felt as though he were leaving himself behind, and by giving himself up to the movement of the…
- Something happens, Blue thinks, and then it goes on happening forever. It can never be changed, can never be otherwise.
- It always stimulates me to discover new examples of my own prejudice and stupidity, to realize that I don't know half as much as I…
- 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…
- 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…
- Just think it, and chances are it will happen.
- You think it will never happen to you, that it cannot happen to you, that you are the only person in the world to whom…
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