Paul Auster Quotes

We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate as personalities are the ones who lose that thread.

Paul Auster

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 3, 1947

Topics

DayPeopleLoseOne DayFollowNext

So many features at Sundance seemed to be powered more on the director's need to be a director than any particular story.

Jill Soloway

StoryMoreNeedDirectorThanMany

Centrism is bogus.

Robert Reich

Bogus

And I don't think that success is going to destroy me at this point in my life, like I used to think.

Rosanne Cash

LifeSuccessMeThinkMy LifeGoing

Ragtime was a fanfare for the 20th century.

Russell Lynes

Century20th CenturyFanfare

Shop the peripheries of the supermarket; stay out of the middle.

Michael Pollan

OutStayMiddleSupermarketShop

I don't believe that anyone is not bothered by critics. I think that everybody cares.

Miuccia Prada

BelieveThinkCriticsCaresBothered

I'm always very fearful when academics get ahold of comedy. Comedy is such a clear thing - people laugh, or they don't laugh. It's involuntary. I'm not saying it can't be scrutinized, it's just that they take the enjoyment out of it.

Lorne Michaels

PeopleSayingLaughComedyOutTake

For 25 years, I did take my responsibilities as a pleaser of others sufficiently seriously.

Joyce Maynard

SeriouslyOthersYearsTakeDid

The tongue should express what is in the heart.

Dayananda Saraswati

HeartTongueShouldExpress

When one door is closed, don't you know, another is open.

Bob Marley

DoorYouKnowOpenClosedAnother

Everybody that played a part in sending me to death row, you will answer to God.

Anthony Ray Hinton

GodDeathMeYouWillAnswer

Maybe I could have been good as a drawer if I had done it as much as I did writing, but it's more scary to draw. It's more revealing. You can't disguise yourself in drawing.

Anne Carson

GoodYourselfWritingDrawingYou

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