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Letter "P" » Paul Auster Quotes
«I don't think that you can be prescriptive about anything, I mean, life is too complicated. Maybe there are novels where the author has not in the least thought about it in terms of film, which can be turned into good films.»
Author: Paul Auster
«I don't know if she should worry too much, I mean some of our greatest writers have had movies made of their books, lots of Hemingway novels were turned into movies, it doesn't hurt the book.»
Author: Paul Auster
«I find it impossible to start a project without the title in mind. I can sometimes spend years thinking of the title to go with the thing that's forming in my head. A title defines the project somehow and if you keep finding the ramifications of the title in the work it becomes better, I'm convinced of this.»
Author: Paul Auster
«All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to make money however I could to keep myself going in some modest way, and I didn't need much, I was unmarried at the time, no children.»
Author: Paul Auster
«Anyway, right around that time I had a problem with a wisdom tooth and I had to go to the dentist to have the thing pulled out, and it was while I was sitting in the chair in the dentist's office, the dentist had picked up this big pair of pliers and was just about to yank out my tooth when the telephone rang.»
Author: Paul Auster
«The book is your book. You have been responsible for every single thing on every page, every comma, every syllable is your work.»
Author: Paul Auster
«You have to protect it too, you can't let just any stupid person take it and do something demoralizing with it. At the same time, I don't believe in being so rigid about controlling what happens either.»
Author: Paul Auster
«'Blue in the Face' is a romp. It's kind of a modern-day vaudeville.»
Author: Paul Auster
«You can't put your feet on the ground until you've touched the sky.»
Author: Paul Auster
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