Paul Auster Quotes

Human beings need stories, and we're looking for them in all kinds of places; whether it's television, whether it's comic books or movies, radio plays, whatever form, people are hungry for stories.

Paul Auster

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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In my fifties, I was still in creation mode. Now I have more of a responsibility to step back and mentor and offer wisdom, offer sign posts on the path.

Jodie Evans

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I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.

Joan Miro

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The part of the process that's exciting to me is feeling like I'm in a place I've never been before, in every way. Without that, I don't know if I'd be a writer.

Jennifer Egan

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For sure, there are times when one may have no choice but to go to war, but it is never something to rush to or accept without exploring every other available option.

John F. Kerry

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You cannot study acting in books. Do it, do it, do it. And watch good actors. See what they are doing and how they are doing it. You have to practically participate, I think, in order to develop yourself.

Max von Sydow

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Even if you're the President of the United States, you still act like a little child and think like a little child sometimes. Childish behavior is what I look for in all of my characters because that is what makes them human.

Stellan Skarsgard

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Roads, better harnesses for horses, time-keeping devices, financial instruments like a currency that was recognized everywhere in the kingdom, enforceable contracts - all of this made commerce more appealing than plunder.

Steven Pinker

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If I fought like I was looking for a place in history, it would ruin me as a person. I don't think history is worth selling my soul.

Roy Jones Jr.

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I've never been able to write a movie script. I respect that skill so much, but it's not been the way my brain works.

Mary Steenburgen

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In presence of Nature's grand convulsions, man is powerless.

Jules Verne

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For news, I follow 'The New York Times,' 'The New Yorker,' and 'ProPublica.' For entertainment, I like The A.V. Club and The Onion.

Jason Jones

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Being inducted into the songwriting hall of fame by Clive Davis, that was pretty memorable.

Diane Warren

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