“It would be a terrible world if everyone was an artist. Nothing would get done!” Quote by Paul Auster
“I believe that every artist, in one way or another, is a wounded person. It's not natural to make art.” WayBelievePersonsArtArtistI BelieveNaturalOne WayWounded Author:Paul Auster
“Most people just want to be part of the world, they want to live, love, and enjoy themselves - to take part in the world around them. Whereas artists are always retreating, locking the door, and inventing other worlds.” PeopleWorldWantArtistEnjoyDoorsOther WorldsInventingLive Love Author:Paul Auster
“I don't want to use quotation marks anymore, I've gone back and forth with them. In Ghosts, I didn't use them, for instance, all the way back in the early eighties.” WayWantUseGoneMarkGhostInstanceQuotationsEightyBack And ForthQuotation Marks Author:Paul Auster
“In my later novels, I systematically used the convention, and then a moment came - when did it come? With The Book of Illusions, maybe - I thought, I don't need them anymore, I don't need them, I want to integrate the dialogue into the text.” WantNeedsBookMomentsUsedNovelIllusionDialogueConventionsIntegrating Author:Paul Auster
“I met Peter Brook, the theater director, who's been based in Paris for many years at the Bouffes du Nord. I admire him tremendously. Some years ago, he was in New York, and he gave an interview with The Times, and what he said was this: "In my work, I try to capture the closeness of the everyday and the distance of myth. Because, without the closeness, you can't be moved, and without the distance, you can't be amazed." Isn't that extraordinary?” TryingYearsSaidNew YorkMetsDirectorsYears AgoTheaterMovedDistanceExtraordinaryEverydayMythAdmireParisInterviewsCapturePeterAmazedBrooksCloseness Author:Paul Auster
“The Constitution is government's stop sign. It says, you - the three branches of government - can go so far and no farther.” GovernmentThreeConstitutionBranchesBranches Of GovernmentThree Branches Of Government Author:Michele Bachmann
“There are two kinds of typical days. There's the typical day when I'm writing a novel, and there's the typical day when I'm not.” WritingKindTwoNovelTypical Author:Paul Auster
“I don't even own a computer. I write by hand then I type it up on an old manual typewriter. But I cross out a lot - I'm not writing in stone tablets, it's just ink on paper. I don't feel comfortable without a pen or a pencil in my hand. I can't think with my fingers on the keyboard. Words are generated for me by gripping the pen, and pressing the point on the paper.” ThinkingFeelsWritingI CanHandsTypePaperComfortableComputerStonesCrossesFingersPensOld ManPencilsInkTypewritersManualsKeyboardsGrippingTablets Author:Paul Auster
“For one reason or another, I became a passionate reader when I was very little. As soon as I could read, I wanted to read.” LittlesReasonWantedReaderPassionate Author:Paul Auster
“The biggest book for me, when I was fifteen, was Crime and Punishment, which I read in a kind of fever. When I put it down, I thought, if this is what novels are then I want to be a novelist.” IfsWantKindBookNovelCrimePunishmentNovelistsFifteenFeverCrime And Punishment Author:Paul Auster