Paul Auster Quotes About Imagination

Quotes about: Imagination

• Escaping into a film is not like escaping into a book. Books force you to give something back to them, to exercise your intelligence and imagination, where as you can watch a film-and even enjoy it-in a state of mindless passivity.

  Paul Auster

  Book, Exercise, Escaping

  Paul Auster (2016). “Collected Novels Volume Four”, p.102, Faber & Faber

• Memory and the imagination are almost identical. It's the same place in the brain and the same thing is happening. When you think about your own life, there are no memories without place. You are always situated somewhere. I think the imagination - the narrative imagination at least - situates you in a specific space when you start to think of a story. I often use places I know. I put my characters inside rooms and houses that I'm familiar with - sometimes the houses of my parents or grandparents or previous apartments I've lived in.

  Paul Auster

  Memories, Character, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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

  Book, Writing, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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