Paul Auster Quotes
Once you finish a book, it doesn't belong to you anymore. You're giving it to other people. If something in what a writer writes can excite the imagination and the feelings of the reader, then that reader carries it around forever. Nothing is more vivid than good fiction.Paul Auster
Quotes to Explore
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Professional golf is the only sport where, if you win 20% of the time, you're the best.
Jack Nicklaus -
I see my role as a scholar announcing that women's feelings of unworthiness and insecurity often may be traced to training in a male-oriented religion, and I'm trying to investigate a richer spiritual life for both sexes.
Barbara G. Walker -
The thing about Y Combinator that's cool is that most companies won't happen if we don't fund them.
Sam Altman -
When companies get big, they slow down. They're not as exciting. If you want to get something done, it takes a lot of time and a lot of meetings.
Adam D'Angelo -
I believe that stories find writers, writers don't find stories. With the 'Pendragon' series, I actually had multiple story ideas and decided that instead of writing them individually, I would create a character whose journey would thread them all together.
D. J. MacHale -
I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
Randy Quaid
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People tried to make me something that I wasn't at the beginning of my career.
Patricia Kaas -
Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
Samuel Johnson -
I'm not the girl next door.
Carine Roitfeld -
I used to play all the time. I would play football when it was light and read when it was dark.
Mal Peet -
We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.
Kary Mullis -
I don't turn my nose up at anything. If it's a great part, it's a great part. I'd love to do a box-office hit.
Laura Dern
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I'm actually not on Twitter.
Rachel Bilson -
You learn from the things that happen in your career. You get up and down. You never give up. All the things that happened in my career, thank God it happened early rather than late in my career.
Pablo Sandoval -
I think there's nothing that can drive you more than a huge dream or a huge challenge.
Laura Wilkinson -
As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.
B. D. Wong -
I think I felt at some point that I couldn't understand poetry or that it was beyond me or it didn't speak to my experience. I think that was because I hadn't yet found the right poems to invite me in.
Natasha Trethewey -
May it be long before the people of the United States shall cease to take a deep and pervading interest in the Fourth of July, as the birthday of our national life, or the event which then occurred shall be subordinated to any other of our national history.
Samuel Freeman Miller
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Never keep a line of retreat: it is a wretched invention.
Fridtjof Nansen -
I persist in performing.
David Tudor -
Having a soul, they say, is like taking sadness and turning it into something beautiful.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine -
Your photography is a record of your living - for anyone who really sees. You may see and be affected by other people's ways, you may even use them to find your own, but you will have eventually to free yourself of them. That is what Nietzche meant when he said, 'I have just read Schopenhauer, now I have to get rid of him.' He knew how insidious other people's ways could be, particularly those which have the forcefulness of profound experience, if you let them get between you and your own personal vision.
Paul Strand -
Once you finish a book, it doesn't belong to you anymore. You're giving it to other people. If something in what a writer writes can excite the imagination and the feelings of the reader, then that reader carries it around forever. Nothing is more vivid than good fiction.
Paul Auster