Paul Auster Quotes

Writing is, after all, a gesture towards other people, giving something to others. And so it's not a completely hermetic exercise. It's really an opening up.

Paul Auster

• People
• Writing
• Giving
• Exercise

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• We are seeing a great awakening. A national movement of We the People, brought together by what unites us - a shared love of liberty, and an understanding of the unlimited potential of free men and free women.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • People
  • Movement
  • Potential

• The record business is dangerous to the health of bands and individuals, which is something I'm just now learning. But it's not dangerous in any of the ways people think; it's not that they try to make you compromise your art. That's not the problem.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • People
  • Art
  • Business

• We want enough people adopting Bitcoin for a robust infrastructure. It's an act of patriotism. It gives the country a robust parallel system.

  

  Patrick M. Byrne
  • People
  • Country
  • Want

• There is so much great talent in the underground, and electronic music is finally getting the props that it's deserved for so long. I feel like now that everyone is discovering it and it's so fresh sounding to so many people. It doesn't get any more rock n' roll than playing EDC or the Staples Center. It's really madness.

  

  Kaskade
  • People
  • Great
  • Music

• I have no interest in writing, directing or producing.

  

  Ted Shackelford
  • Writing
  • Interest
  • Directing

• Writing is a solitary journey, so I am always excited to go out on book tour and meet readers one-on-one.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Journey

• Instead of writing songs for girls, I tend to write albums, which I guess is a bit weird.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Writing
  • Weird
  • Write

• I grew up with artists and drag queens. These were just my neighbors and friends and the people who are raising me.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • People
  • Friends
  • Artists

• I just think that the Victoria's Secret girl values herself by the way she looks. And that might be linked with being healthy, but that's all it is, and it sets a negative example to other people.

  

  Edie Campbell
  • People
  • She
  • Girl

• Look, I'm a cancer survivor, all right? So I have great personal empathy for people who have pre-existing conditions and can't get insurance.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • People
  • Great
  • Cancer

• As a young physician in the mid-'80s, caring for people who had contracted H.I.V., I lost two of my patients to suicide at a time when the virus was doing very little harm to them. I have always thought of them as having been killed by a metaphor, by the burden of secrecy and shame associated with the disease.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • People
  • Time
  • Lost

• The same way that some people can play the piano, I can do plots! They just come!

  

  Francine Pascal
  • People
  • Same
  • Piano

• People in very high places suddenly fall, and we are always surprised because we don't factor in the basic element that they're humans and, therefore, they are flawed and have weaknesses.

  

  Carlisle Floyd
  • People
  • High
  • Fall

• The Dutch are a very practical people.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • People
  • Practical
  • Dutch

• We want a vernacular in art. No mere verbal or formal agreement, or dead level of uniformity but that comprehensive and harmonizing unity with individual variety which can be developed among people politically and socially free.

  

  Walter Crane
  • People
  • Art
  • Free

• I'm just an instant flirt with most people. I'm very cheeky.

  

  Olly Murs
  • People
  • Most
  • Flirt

• People have always found me challenging - I don't know why, when I am only being myself. I don't understand why they find me so annoying but they do. It is pity, but that is how it is.

  

  Ian Hamilton Finlay
  • Annoying
  • Challenging

• If people watch 'Broad City' very closely, we just drop lines about people we love, just to say we like them.

  

  Abbi Jacobson
  • People
  • City
  • Like

• The Americans think British T.V. shows are amazing, and everybody references 'Downton Abbey', and, in my genre, 'Doctor Who', which everyone is crazy for. People are always asking me and are always disappointed that I haven't been in it.

  

  Jaime Murray
  • People
  • Amazing
  • Crazy

• The American people want us to go to work. They want us to produce good policy, ... The ability for us to save Social Security and Medicare in the future, the ability to give American workers and working families more of their money so that they can keep it in their pocket instead of giving it to the tax collectors.

  

  Dennis Hastert
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• When I start my mornings, I put some essential oils in a diffuser; it might be orange blossom or jasmine to energize and spruce me up or lavender at night to really calm me down.

  

  Katie Lowes
  • Up
  • Night
  • Calm

• I really like collections of things. I love antique botanical prints with a bunch of different weeds and seeds.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Like
  • Things
  • Really

• When beginning your entrepreneurial journey, acknowledge that you become a product of the five people you spend the most time with. So choose your company wisely.

  

  Lewis Howes
  • People
  • Time
  • Beginning

• Writing is, after all, a gesture towards other people, giving something to others. And so it's not a completely hermetic exercise. It's really an opening up.

  

  Paul Auster
  • People
  • Writing
  • Giving