Paul Auster Quotes

For me, a paragraph in a novel is a bit like a line in a poem. It has its own shape, its own music, its own integrity.

There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads.

We grow older, but we do not change. We become more sophisticated, but at bottom we continue to resemble our young selves, eager to listen to the next story and the next, and the next.

Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and ... -Paul Auster

Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.

I'm living in the present, thinking about the past... -Paul Auster

I'm living in the present, thinking about the past, hoping for the future.

I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come back, I needed some breathing room. I'd already been translating French poetry, I'd been to Paris once before and liked it very much, and so I just went.

There's hope for everyone. That's what makes the w... -Paul Auster

There's hope for everyone. That's what makes the world go round.

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The quote asserts the universality of hope, suggesting that it is a fundamental aspect of human existence and a driving force behind the ongoing progression and dynamics of the world.

Chance is an element of life. What I try to do is study what I call the mechanics of reality as carefully as I can.

The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In some ways we are, in some ways we're not. We are ruled by the forces of chance and coincidence.

I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets. That kind of spilled out into translation as a way to earn money, pay for food and put bread on the table.

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