Quote by Paul Auster Download Open image ““The gods looked down from their mountain and shrugged.”” — Paul Auster ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“as if by behaving modestly and discreetly they could make the fire stay up on the mountain and die there, like an unwanted god.” — Ross Macdonald Copy Share Image
“They talked about God. They had no picture in their minds of some mist steaming upward: rather of strong, skillful hands thrust down to… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“. . . the mountains sighed with the weight of the heavens on their backs.” — Reif Larsen Copy Share Image
“One day I asked God to move the mountain ahead of me, but he said no because he wanted me to experience the joy… — Gift Gugu Mona Copy Share Image
“No one looks at the mountains. But they were there, making them all look silly.” — Ross Macdonald Copy Share Image
“Don't look up at the mountain. Keep your head down, and take the next step.” — Peter James West Copy Share Image
“The mountains had their own time, and a wise man did not try to hurry them.” — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“Look at me. This is nobility in a man: to bear what falls from the gods and not say No.” — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
“Talking to the gods had been a much more comfortable proposition when there had seemed no danger of Their talking back.” — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
“After all, with enough faith, a person can move a mountain . . . even a mountain of her own making.” — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
“Usually he didn’t bother the gods, and he hoped the gods wouldn’t bother him. Life was quite complicated enough.” — Terry Pratchett 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
