Paul Auster Quotes

I sometimes feel that my goal as a novelist would be to write a novel in which the language was so transparent that the reader would forget that language was the medium of understanding. Of course that's not possible, but it's some sort of idealized goal.

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• I never blamed Pinochet, or my torturers, or external circumstances.

  

  Fernando Flores
  • Never
  • Circumstances
  • Blamed

• If there's one thing that I've done on purpose it's to take whatever job, so long as it's interesting and challenging, whether it's theatre, radio, TV or film.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Long
  • Done
  • Job

• I have no problem with violence, I have no problem playing horrible people.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • People
  • Problem
  • Violence

• I never wanted to give up my given name. I'm proud of it, but the only problem was that no one remembered it. It was just a little too awkward, and they mispronounced it so frequently.

  

  Warren Kole
  • Up
  • Problem
  • Proud

• Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • God
  • May
  • Through

• Humans are insane. We kill our own people, starve our own people, sell them, work them to death, beat them, don't give them affordable/free/good healthcare, and let them live in misery, while a few of us have - we have all we want. We are evil.

  

  Faith Hunter
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• Today's films are so technological that an actor becomes starved for roles that deal with human relationships.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Today
  • Human
  • Relationships

• You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Heart
  • You
  • Strength

• Hillary Clinton almost got to be president. The reasons why she didn't become president had to do with bad judgments about how to handle the early caucus states, which is not a gender-specific trait.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Why
  • She
  • Bad

• The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that there's some intelligence behind the cartoons, and there's a lot of work that's gone into it, so it can't all be just a lie.

  

  Damon Albarn Blur
  • People
  • Work
  • Real

• I realized after writing songs for years how important it is. Whether it provides a living for me or not, that creative outlet is something I need.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Important
  • Writing
  • Creative

• Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Lying
  • Curiosity
  • Wait

• People pretend to be nice; people pretend to be smooth and polite and everything, but this is only an appearance because the way we're built as human beings is only in paradox and contradictions.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • People
  • Nice
  • Appearance

• People I respect complimenting me on my work in fashion is more exciting to me than anything I ever achieved as a Spice Girl. I am now competing in an arena where I can hold my head high. I feel quite confident in what I'm doing now, much more than the singing. I was never going to give Mariah Carey any competition.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • People
  • Work
  • High

• The deepest and most sincere feeling I get is when I meet an artist and they have that steel in their eyes and they have that fire and that passion and all they want is to be a star and to hear themselves on the radio.

  

  L.A. Reid
  • Feeling
  • Eyes
  • Passion

• I'm a much better mother at 46... than if I were like, 21 or 25.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Mother
  • Like
  • Better

• I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Fear

• I liked the people at Brown, while I really disliked most of the fellow students I had met at Northwestern.

  

  Ira Glass
  • People
  • Students
  • Brown

• The office building is a building for work, organization, lucidity and economy. Light, spacious working rooms, clearly arranged, undivided, only organized according to the pattern of the firm.

  

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • Work
  • Light
  • Organization

• I am interested in the subject which is Russia.

  

  Tatyana Tolstaya
  • Interested
  • Russia

• Brick-and-mortar at the end of the day matters because viral is great, but it comes and goes as fast.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Great
  • Day
  • End

• I think there is an opportunity now that never existed before. This is due to a combination of public opinion in Israel, my commitment and the understanding and hopefully future support of President George W. Bush.

  

  Ehud Olmert
  • Future
  • Opportunity
  • Support

• 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
  • People
  • Writing
  • Book

• I sometimes feel that my goal as a novelist would be to write a novel in which the language was so transparent that the reader would forget that language was the medium of understanding. Of course that's not possible, but it's some sort of idealized goal.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Writing
  • Understanding
  • Language