43 Paul Auster Quotes for You to Enjoy

Paul Auster

American Author

Born: Feb 3, 1947

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The kind of fiction I'm trying to write is about telling the truth. Paul Auster

Truth Kind Telling Telling The Truth About Write Trying Fiction

You see the film, you might be entertained, and if it's not a great film, it loses its power very quickly. I think even simply acceptable books stay with us a lot longer. Paul Auster

For some reason, all my characters come to me with their names attached to them. I never have to search for the names. Paul Auster

Me Characters Some Attached Never Come Names Them Reason Search

The book that convinced me I wanted to be a writer was 'Crime and Punishment'. I put the thing down after reading it in a fever over two or three days... I said, 'If this is what a book can be, then that is what I want to do.' Paul Auster

I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was about 30 that I got serious about writing prose. While I was writing poems, I would often divert myself by reading detective novels; I liked them. Paul Auster

Life Myself Writing Poet Reading Out Would Detective About Poems Only Divert Poetry Through Prose Liked Until Got Often While Them Serious Novels Started

I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods, most of which people don't need. I'm anti-consumerism; I own four pairs of black Levis and that's it. Paul Auster

Writing is such a strange, utterly mysterious process. First, there was nothing; then, suddenly, there was something. I don't know where thoughts are born. Where the hell does it come from? I don't know. I really don't know. Paul Auster

Thoughts Strange Writing First Nothing Hell Born Something Mysterious Come Know Does Where Process Then Really Suddenly Utterly

I've learned not to look at reviews. Early on, I did. I was always curious. Paul Auster

Look Learned Always Reviews Curious Did Early

Some like to think that a keen appreciation of art can actually make us better people - more just, more moral, more sensitive, more understanding. Perhaps that is true - in certain rare, isolated cases. Paul Auster

We grow older, but we do not change. We become more sophisticated, but at bottom we continue to resemble our young selves, eager to listen to the next story and the next, and the next. Paul Auster

Change Become Young Older Our More Bottom Sophisticated Continue Selves Listen Story Next Resemble Grow Eager

Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them up with great passion. That is because human beings need stories. Paul Auster

Great Passion Films Books Churning Television Out Vast Because Quantities Narratives Comic Comic Books Up Human Human Beings Stories Fictional Swallow Public Them Beings Even Need

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