Paul Auster Quotes

My characters, I find them as I'm writing. It's quite incredible how fully realized they are in my mind, how many details I know about each of them.

Paul Auster

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• You won't really get a lot of the mainstream, lovey-dovey side because that wasn't a part of my life in the beginning.

  

  Young Buck
  • Life
  • Beginning
  • My Life

• Unfortunately, there is still much to mine in this world and explore creatively.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • World
  • Explore
  • Still

• Democracy should be practiced not every six years, but every day.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Day
  • Democracy
  • Everyday

• I tend to have a pattern of playing misunderstood characters.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Misunderstood
  • Pattern

• One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • Doing
  • Direction
  • Group

• I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.

  

  Katharine Cornell
  • Amazing
  • Woman
  • Performances

• Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Nature
  • Man
  • Service

• Another argument, vaguer and even less persuasive, is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heterosexual marriage. I have yet to meet anyone who can explain to me what this means. In what way would allowing same-sex partners to marry diminish the marriages of heterosexual couples?

  

  Ted Olson
  • Way
  • Marriage
  • Sex

• Contrary to popular belief, I'm not always trying to stand out.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Trying
  • Popular
  • Belief

• I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Together
  • Church
  • Myself

• People do bad things in their lives. And those sort of things are forgivable. That's half the point of having confession in church - you need to be able to fess up to what you've done.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • People
  • Up
  • Done

• Those of us raised in modern cities tend to notice horizontal and vertical lines more quickly than lines at other orientations. In contrast, people raised in nomadic tribes do a better job noticing lines skewed at intermediate angles, since Mother Nature tends to work with a wider array of lines than most architects.

  

  Sam Kean
  • People
  • Work
  • Job

• I go to all these photo shoots, and each time I figure out something new about myself and what I want to wear.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Time
  • Myself
  • New

• Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity in three hours that they would get from a whole-day match. And even though it is a heady cocktail of money, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Money
  • Attention
  • Drama

• The most divisive issue facing New Yorkers in 2013 is stop and frisk, a tactic used by law enforcement to stop, question, and frisk people suspected of a crime.

  

  Sal Albanese
  • People
  • Law
  • Stop

• I wouldn't do a film like 'The Dirty Picture.' I have a husband and kids, and I won't be able to do justice to such a role. You need a certain mentality and ease to carry such a character.

  

  Kajol
  • Character
  • Kids
  • Justice

• They pollute. It's not because morally they have a problem, but more because the mechanism now is rewarding those who cut corners to save cost.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Problem
  • Cost
  • Save

• We were on the cover of Women's Wear Daily, which was hardly rock 'n' roll, but it pleased me.

  

  Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet
  • Women
  • Rock
  • Daily

• The interest of the man must be connected with the constitutional rights of the place. It may be a reflection on human nature, that such devices should be necessary to control the abuses of Government. But what is Government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?

  

  James Madison
  • May
  • Nature
  • Control

• Over the years, a number of people have asked me why I tend to write at this great length. I've put some thought into the answer, and it can be boiled down one word: consequences. Well, maybe two words: consequences and characters. Or perhaps, consequences, characters, and the subconscious mind - above all the subconscious mind.

  

  Katharine Kerr
  • People
  • Great
  • Mind

• Whenever I write anything that sets up controversy its meaning is distorted almost instantly. Even the editorial writers of newspapers seem to be unable to understand the plainest sentence.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Newspapers

• The Iraqi people are capable of fighting to the victorious end which God wants... the blood of our martyrs will burn you!

  

  Saddam Hussein
  • People
  • God
  • Fighting

• My characters, I find them as I'm writing. It's quite incredible how fully realized they are in my mind, how many details I know about each of them.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Writing
  • Mind
  • Character