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Paul Auster Quotes

Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story, when our mother or father would sit down beside us in the semi-dark and read from a book of fairy tales.

Paul Auster

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Father Mother Moment Book Story Sit

Down South, I never had to audition. They would call me up and give me a role.

Anita Morris

Me Down Never Up Give Me Role

You could have another downgrade. You could certainly have a stock market reaction that would be negative. And, I think nobody who looks at it objectively would want to happen.

Rob Portman

Negative Think Stock Market You Want

In the time it takes to heat a TV dinner, Clinton had convinced me that he was the smartest person in the room and that I was the center of his attention. In the next 25 years, I would see countless others fall just as quickly to the Clinton Touch.

Ron Fournier

Time Me Dinner Attention Fall Heat

I write because I'm in love with language; because I like working for myself, inside my head; and because it's the only way I know to make a stab at answering the never-ending questions of the heart that arise simply from the everyday living of our lives.

Julia Glass

Love Heart Myself Language Questions

There's bigger threats in my neighborhood than LeBron James, so I have no fear whatsoever of LeBron.

Jaylen Brown

Fear No Fear Bigger Neighborhood

Playing for Yogi is like playing for your father; playing for Billy is like playing for your father-in-law.

Don Baylor

Father Playing Father-In-Law Your

Radiative transfer calculations I can do standing on my head.

Christopher Monckton

I Can Head Standing Transfer

I want to make, like, 8,000 movies.

Clara Mamet

Want Movies Make Like

I'm not like a Sears Catalog of ideas. I don't have that many ideas. I've more or less written them over the years. Usually, I come up with a situation or a character, and it rattles around in my head until the story or the plot emerges.

Brian Helgeland

Character Ideas Story Situation More

I like when they open the door and pull out a chair. I'm really into a man's man.

Brooke Burns

Man Door Chair Open Out Pull

Bachata is expensive to produce because of all of the instruments.

Prince Royce

Expensive Because Produce Instruments

In the South, everyone speaks, if you know each other or not. I'm raising my daughter more Southern, like how her father and I were raised.

Shanola Hampton

Father Daughter You Know More Her