Paul Auster Quotes

I don't think of myself as a metafictional writer at all. I think of myself as a classic writer, a realist writer, who tends to have flights of fancy at times, but nevertheless, my feet are mostly on the ground.

Paul Auster

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

MyselfFeetThinkRealistClassic

Sometimes I felt as a writer I was purging, and it almost hurt to purge to that level. Now it doesn't feel that way, maybe because I'm older. Maybe life has given me some punches, but it didn't knock me down.

Jill Scott

LifeMeHurtFeelDownSometimes

Allowing a friend to careen toward self destruction is not friendship. That is a habit the United States needs to break as it pursues a richer and more deeply supportive relationship with Israel.

Stephen Kinzer

FriendshipFriendRelationshipHabit

Management gurus in general are, I think, best avoided. All too often they reduce your working life to a list of rules to be followed. Targets are aimed at. Goals kicked at. You then break the rules or forget them and, hey presto, you start beating yourself up.

Tom Hodgkinson

LifeGoalsBestYourselfStartYou

The more I learned about religion in Africa, the more intrigued I became. It was as if the continent was gripped with religious fervor. And the center of it was Uganda.

Roger Ross Williams

ReligionAfricaMoreCenterLearned

People call things 'vulgar' when they are new to them. When they have become old, they become 'good taste.'

Mary Quant

GoodPeopleNewBecomeOldTaste

Let me respond with a few points, the first being that all immigrants pay taxes, income taxes, property taxes, sales taxes, gasoline taxes, cigarette taxes, every tax when they make a purchase.

Luis Gutierrez

MeImmigrantsTaxSalesFirstTaxes

Christopher Reeve will always be Superman in my mind.

Jason Behr

MindSupermanWillAlwaysReeve

My parents dreaded the fact that I was changing my life to do this, but I just kept doing it.

Jason Mraz

LifeParentsMy LifeDoingChanging

For decades, I have cringed whenever someone called me 'illegal,' as if I'm an insect on someone's back. I found out I didn't have the right papers - that I was here illegally - when I tried to get a driver's permit at age 16. But I am not 'illegal.' No person is.

Jose Antonio Vargas

AgeI AmMeSomeoneBackPerson

It's funny; I'm in some ways hopelessly masculine, but I don't fish, I don't hunt, I'm not that into sports. I can't fix a car. I think it's my point of view and the way I see the world.

Corey Stoll

FunnyCarSportsWorldThinkFish

We have to stress our conservative credentials and emphasize that we are the natural, national alternative to the Liberals. Clearly the Alliance has shown it can't break out of its Western box. The Alliance is at single-digit support in three quarters of the country.

Peter MacKay

StressSupportCountryThreeBox

I'd rather have ten people who are mad for it than ten thousand who aren't.

Peter Hook

PeopleMadWhoTenRatherThan

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