"One should never underestimate the power of books." — Paul Auster

"One should never underestimate the power of books."

— Paul Auster

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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…
The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself…
There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads.
We are continually shaped by the forces of coincidence.
Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop…
You can't put your feet on the ground until you've touched the sky.
We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People…
Even in New York, there are a lot of very attractive girls pedaling around. That just happens to be one…
Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to…
I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and…
I don't think of myself as a metafictional writer at all. I think of myself as a classic writer, a…
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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High thoughts must have high language. — Aristophanes
I was never really a comic-book fanatic. — J. J. Abrams
When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you… — Julian Assange
Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to… — Paul Auster
I'm not a comic book guy at all. — Darren Aronofsky
I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is… — Isaac Asimov
I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was,… — Sean Astin
The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except… — David Attenborough
I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood
Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it. — Margaret Atwood
Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the… — Margaret Atwood
Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But… — Margaret Atwood

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