"Every man is the author of his own…" — Paul Auster
"Every man is the author of his own life."
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173 Quotes by Paul Auster
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Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you…
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The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself…
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There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads.
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We are continually shaped by the forces of coincidence.
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Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop…
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You can't put your feet on the ground until you've touched the sky.
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We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People…
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Even in New York, there are a lot of very attractive girls pedaling around. That just happens to be one…
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Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to…
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I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and…
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I don't think of myself as a metafictional writer at all. I think of myself as a classic writer, a…
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I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just…
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The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by…
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After an author has been dead for some time, it becomes increasingly difficult for his publishers to get a new…
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I have been told by hospital authorities that more copies of my works are left behind by departing patients than…
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There is a note in the front of the volume saying that no public reading may be given without first…
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Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ is the foundation upon which sincere and meaningful repentance must be built. If we…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Once the curtain is raised, the actor is ceases to belong to himself. He belongs to his character, to his…
— Sarah Bernhardt
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You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author's world.
— Jeff Bezos
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I'm most impressed by the Russian writers, so I love reading the works of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. Another author who…
— Andrea Bocelli
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If Shakespeare had to go on an author tour to promote Romeo and Juliet, he never would have written Macbeth.
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Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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The idea is to become a best-selling author first and then the rest of my books will be slam dunks.
— Nolan Bushnell
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