Paul Auster Quotes About Reading

Quotes about: Reading

• Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head.

  Paul Auster

  Beautiful, Reading, Choices

  Paul Auster (2008). “The Brooklyn Follies”, p.13, Faber & Faber

• While I was writing poems, I would often divert myself by reading detective novels, I liked them. And there was a period when I read many of them. I absorbed the form, and I liked it, it was a good one, mostly the hard-boiled school, you know, Chandler, Hammett, and their heirs. That was the direction that interested me most.

  Paul Auster

  Reading, Writing, School

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 5, 2009.

• I think people are trying out ideas with the new technology and it's too early to say where it's going exactly. But again, whether it's digital or paper, it doesn't matter. It's words that somebody is reading and getting an experience out of that reading. That's all that really matters.

  Paul Auster

  Reading, Thinking, Technology

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 5, 2009.

• My children haven't read 'Winter Journal'. They have read some of my work, but I really don't foist it on them. I want them to be free to discover it in their own good time. I think reading an intimate memoir by your father - or an intimate autobiographical work, whatever we want to call this thing - you have to come at it at the right moment, so I'm certainly not foisting it upon them.

  Paul Auster

  Children, Father, Reading

  Source: www.timeout.com

• I was always very curious as a young man about why older writers who I met seemed so indifferent to what was going on, whereas I, in my 20s, was reading everything. Everything seemed important. But they were only interested in the writers they admired when they were young, and I didn't understand it then, but now, now I understand it.

  Paul Auster

  Reading, Men, Important

  "American dreams" by Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. October 26, 2002.

• When you're young, you keep reading new writers and you keep changing your mind about how you ought to sound.

  Paul Auster

  Reading, Mind, Sound

  "The mighty Quinn". Interview with James Campbell, www.theguardian.com. November 12, 2005.

• I started out in life as a poet, I was only writing poetry all through my 20s, it wasn't until I was about 30 that I got serious about writing prose. While I was writing poems, I would often divert myself by reading detective novels, I liked them.

  Paul Auster

  Reading, Writing, Detectives

  "Big Think Interview With Paul Auster". Interviewed with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 5, 2009.

• Reading, at the deepest level, is a physical experience. Most people are not attuned to this, most people don't learn how to read - poetry for example, or high-quality prose. They're used to reading magazines and newspapers, which are only of the mind, but not of the body.

  Paul Auster

  Reading, People, Mind

  Interview with Nathalie Cochoy and Sophie Vallas, transatlantica.revues.org. March 2014.

• The book that convinced me I wanted to be a writer was 'Crime and Punishment'. I put the thing down after reading it in a fever over two or three days... I said, 'If this is what a book can be, then that is what I want to do.'

  Paul Auster

  Book, Reading, Punishment

  "The mighty Quinn" by James Campbell, www.theguardian.com. November 12, 2005.

• I hate reading digital books. I don't enjoy the experience. I like smelling the paper, turning the pages. I think the book as we've always known it is an efficient technology.

  Paul Auster

  Hate, Book, Reading

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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