Paul Auster Quotes - Page 8

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• Having made films, I know very well that the scope of the average 90- to 120-minute movie is about the same narrative heft as a long short story or a novella.

  Paul Auster

  Average, Long, Stories

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. September 6, 2008.

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• The best filmmakers, I think, have always had very narrow frameworks for their stories, and then they can go deeply, rather than skimming the surface.

  Paul Auster

  Thinking, Stories, Skimming

  Paul Auster, James M. Hutchisson (2013). “Conversations with Paul Auster”, p.195, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• When I think of Tokyo Story, yeah, it is like a novella. That doesn't mean it's not great. Some of my favorite Tolstoy works are his novellas.

  Paul Auster

  Mean, Thinking, Stories

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. September 6, 2008.

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• This is very rare for anyone in life to pursue something and that thing being the thing you actually most want to do. It's all about the inner, rather than the outer. Whether people like or don't like my work, read it or don't read it, it's just been a gift from the gods that I've been able to sit at my desk for the last almost 50 years and do the things I've wanted to do.

  Paul Auster

  Years, People, Want

  Interview with Lotte Hansen, www.timeout.com.

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• Everyone reads a different book. That's what's interesting. Everyone sees a different film, as well. We bring our past lives to whatever work of art we're experiencing at that moment, and that's what makes it interesting. It's not mathematics. There are different answers for different people.

  Paul Auster

  Art, Book, Past

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. September 6, 2008.

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• I think the act of talking about something - with a friend, or someone in your family, or someone you care about, and you're discussing something that you both admire - can often sharpen your thoughts about what you've read or seen and help you think more clearly about it.

  Paul Auster

  Thinking, Talking, Care

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. September 6, 2008.

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• Often it's true that films just go right through us. You see the film, you might be entertained, and if it's not a great film, it loses its power very quickly. I think even simply acceptable books stay with us a lot longer.

  Paul Auster

  Book, Thinking, Might

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. September 6, 2008.

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• Books demand more. You have to be a more active participant.

  Paul Auster

  Book, Demand, Active

  Paul Auster, James M. Hutchisson (2013). “Conversations with Paul Auster”, p.194, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The biggest book for me, when I was fifteen, was Crime and Punishment, which I read in a kind of fever. When I put it down, I thought, if this is what novels are then I want to be a novelist.

  Paul Auster

  Book, Punishment, Novelists

  "A Connoisseur of Clouds, a Meteorologist of Whims: The Rumpus Interview with Paul Auster". Interview with Juliet Linderman, therumpus.net. November 16, 2009.

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• For one reason or another, I became a passionate reader when I was very little. As soon as I could read, I wanted to read.

  Paul Auster

  Passionate, Littles, Reason

  "A Connoisseur of Clouds, a Meteorologist of Whims: The Rumpus Interview with Paul Auster". Interview with Juliet Linderman, therumpus.net. November 16, 2009.

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• I don't even own a computer. I write by hand then I type it up on an old manual typewriter. But I cross out a lot - I'm not writing in stone tablets, it's just ink on paper. I don't feel comfortable without a pen or a pencil in my hand. I can't think with my fingers on the keyboard. Words are generated for me by gripping the pen, and pressing the point on the paper.

  Paul Auster

  Writing, Thinking, Typewriters

  "A Connoisseur of Clouds, a Meteorologist of Whims: The Rumpus Interview with Paul Auster". Interview with Juliet Linderman, therumpus.net. November 16, 2009.

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• I've been very lucky in this second marriage. It's just luck. It's absolute luck. And I can only marvel at it. So many other things could have happened that didn't, so overall I feel blessed.

  Paul Auster

  Blessed, Luck, Second Marriage

  Interview with Lotte Hansen, www.timeout.com.

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• It's always a mystery to me, I have to confess. I've never been able to witness the birth of an idea. It seems as if one second, there's nothing particularly going on, and the next second, something is there.

  Paul Auster

  Ideas, Able, Next

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. September 6, 2008.

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• I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets. That kind of spilled out into translation as a way to earn money, pay for food and put bread on the table.

  Paul Auster

  Tables, Pay, Way

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• I never feel I'm standing on solid ground, and I do write with a certain kind of trembling fear.

  Paul Auster

  Writing, Kind, Certain

  "A Connoisseur of Clouds, a Meteorologist of Whims: The Rumpus Interview with Paul Auster". Interview with Juliet Linderman, therumpus.net. November 16, 2009.

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• I project myself so deeply into the characters in novels that I'm not thinking about my own life.

  Paul Auster

  Character, Thinking, Projects

  Paul Auster, James M. Hutchisson (2013). “Conversations with Paul Auster”, p.196, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• To tell you the truth, I'm not unhappy about it. I'm not even sure that I like the idea of adapting novels into films. It's very difficult to do, and it usually doesn't work. There are exceptions, but generally speaking, one feels disappointed with the result.

  Paul Auster

  Ideas, Unhappy, Film

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• I have difficulty orienting myself in space, and I'm probably one of the few people who gets lost in Manhattan.

  Paul Auster

  Space, People, Manhattan

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

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• I'm really trying to dredge up what one might call intellectual and moral material. For example, when do you realize that you are an American? What age does that happen to you? When do you realize what religion your parents practice? When does it all become conscious? I was interested in exploring all of that.

  Paul Auster

  Practice, Parent, Intellectual

  "A Personal 'Report From The Interior' Of Author Paul Auster". "All Things Considered" with Arun Rath, www.npr.org. December 15, 2013.

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• Some like to think that a keen appreciation of art can actually make us better people - more just, more moral, more sensitive, more understanding. Perhaps that is true - in certain rare, isolated cases.

  Paul Auster

  Appreciation, Art, Thinking

  "I want to tell you a story" by Paul Auster, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2006.

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• 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.

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• I don't think about the stories so much, as the characters themselves. They live on, and they are almost as real as I am.

  Paul Auster

  Real, Character, Thinking

  "A Connoisseur of Clouds, a Meteorologist of Whims: The Rumpus Interview with Paul Auster". Interview with Juliet Linderman, therumpus.net. November 16, 2009.

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• Writing has always had a tactile quality for me. It's a physical experience.

  Paul Auster

  Writing, Quality, Tactile

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• 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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• When young people say I want to be a novelist, I'd say, think very carefully about it. There will be very few rewards, you probably won't make any money, you probably won't become famous, and you will spend your whole life locked up in a room by yourself worrying about how to survive.

  Paul Auster

  Thinking, People, Worry

  "A Connoisseur of Clouds, a Meteorologist of Whims: The Rumpus Interview with Paul Auster". Interview with Juliet Linderman, therumpus.net. November 16, 2009.

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