Top 92 Quotes by Paul Auster

About Paul Auster

These are some quotes by American author Paul Auster Author, who was born on February 3, 1947.

The funny thing is that I feel close to all my characters. Deep, deep inside them all.

The funny thing is that I feel close to all my characters. Deep, deep inside them all.

Paul Auster

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

For me, a paragraph in a novel is a bit like a line in a poem. It has its own shape, its own music, its own integrity.

For me, a paragraph in a novel is a bit like a line in a poem. It has its own shape, its own music, its own integrity.

Paul Auster

I'm generous. I give good tips. It's just - the way I live my life, ironically enough, is: I don't want anything. I'm not a consumer. I don't crave objects.

I'm generous. I give good tips. It's just - the way I live my life, ironically enough, is: I don't want anything. I'm not a consumer. I don't crave objects.

Paul Auster

If you're not ready for everything, you're not ready for anything.

If you're not ready for everything, you're not ready for anything.

Paul Auster

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 an audience, it's one to one.

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 an audience, it's one to one.

Paul Auster

When you're young, you keep reading new writers and you keep changing your mind about how you ought to sound.

When you're young, you keep reading new writers and you keep changing your mind about how you ought to sound.

Paul Auster

I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn't think I could do anything else. So I read and read and wrote short stories and dreamed of escape.

I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn't think I could do anything else. So I read and read and wrote short stories and dreamed of escape.

Paul Auster

Each book I've done somehow finds its own unique form, a specific way it has to be written, and once I find it, I stick with it.

Each book I've done somehow finds its own unique form, a specific way it has to be written, and once I find it, I stick with it.

Paul Auster

I'm really trying to dredge up what one might call intellectual and moral material. For example, when do you realize that you are an American? What age does that happen to you? When do you realize what religion your parents practice? When does it all become conscious? I was interested in exploring all of that.

Paul Auster

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