Courses Quote by Paul Auster Download Open image “The fiction is not autobiographical. Maybe to some extent it is, of course.” — Paul Auster ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Courses Fiction
I don't think there's such a thing as autobiographical fiction. If I say it happened, it happened, even if only in my mind. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Everything is autobiographical, and nothing is autobiographical. That's fiction. — Lisa Unger Copy Share Image
All fiction is largely autobiographical and much autobiography is, of course, fiction. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the broad sense, as a processing of everything one hears or witnesses, all fiction is autobiographical - imagination ground through the mill of… — Rohinton Mistry Copy Share Image
Readers are fools. They believe all writing is autobiographical. And so it is, but not in the way they think. The writer's life needs… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
It is all fiction, only autobiographical in the sense it is about a small town. None of the incidents in the book ever happened… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
All novels must be autobiographical because I am the only material that I know. All of the characters are me. But at the same… — John Banville Copy Share Image
There's not a strong autobiographical strain in my fiction. A few bits of fact here and there. — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
Fiction always reveals a lot about the person who is writing it. That's the scary thing. Not in a straightforward autobiographical sense. But the… — Katie Kitamura Copy Share Image
The stories are not autobiographical, but they're personal in that way. I seem to know only the things that I've learned. Probably some things… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
“On his best walks, he was able to feel that he was nowhere. And this, finally, was all he ever asked of things: to… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“No es que escribir me produzca un gran placer, pero es mucho peor si no lo hago.” — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
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… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
The joke is the purest, most essential form of storytelling. Every word has to count. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“What people saw when he appeared before them, then, was not really him, but a person he had invented, an artificial creature he could… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I had made an empirical discovery and it carried all the weight of a mathematical proof. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
As long as there's one person to believe it, there's no story that can't be true. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Writing has always had a tactile quality for me. It's a physical experience. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
People look at the same passage, and one person will say this is the best thing he's ever read, and another person will say… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I was very moved to see that the name of the boat was Hamlet - an imaginary character becomes so important to people, we… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Our lifelong certainties about the world can be demolished in a single second. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
If ever I did a man any goodof course it was something exceptional and insignificant compared with the good or evil which I am… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Our critical day is not the very day of our death; but the whole course of our life. — John Donne Copy Share Image
Bernie [Ecclestone] is the commercial rights holder so the more outgoing the champion is, the better. Of course. I also do think about our… — Bernie Ecclestone Copy Share Image
The prediction of nuclear winter is drawn not, of course, from any direct experience with the consequences of global nuclear war, but rather from… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
We are always saying: Let the Law take its Course but what we really mean is: Let the Law take OUR Course. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
Men generally decide upon a middle course, which is most hazardous, for they know neither how to be entirely good nor entirely bad. — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
I earn my living by teaching film, mostly filmmaking but also teaching courses on current cinema. I'm interested in movies. I hope that's not… — Thom Andersen Copy Share Image
The wisdom of our actions in the first three years of peace will determine the course of world history for half a century. — Henry A. Wallace Copy Share Image
To divide one's life by years is of course to tumble into a trap set by our own arithmetic. The calendar consents to carry… — Clifton Fadiman Copy Share Image
You can’t bake a cake without getting the kitchen messy. Halfway through surgery it looks like there’s been a murder in the operating room.… — Price Pritchett Copy Share Image
Leave a cavity behind the [wall] facings, and on the inside build walls two feet thick, made of red dimension stone or burnt brick or lava in courses, and then bind them to the fronts by means of iron clamps and lead. The beds and builds, all settling equally and bonded at the joints, will not let the work bulge… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share
Of course it does on opening night, but I've never had that devastating stage fright that some people get, but apparently, you can develop… — Joan Collins Copy Share Image