Paul Auster

Here I am of the air, a beautiful thing for the light to shine on. Perhaps you will remember that. I am... ↗

— Paul Auster

#city-of-glass #peter-stillman #beauty

If you're not ready for everything, you're not ready for anything. ↗

— Paul Auster

#everything #ready #you

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. ↗

— Paul Auster

#books #greatest #greatest writers #had #hemingway

You can't put your feet on the ground until you've touched the sky. ↗

— Paul Auster

#ground #put #sky #touched #until

There's hope for everyone. That's what makes the world go round. ↗

— Paul Auster

#go #hope #makes #round #world

You see, the interesting thing about books, as opposed, say, to films, is that it's always just one person encountering the book, it's not an audience, it's one to one. ↗

— Paul Auster

#always #audience #book #books #encountering

Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever. ↗

— Paul Auster

#change #everything #forever #moment #suddenly

It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the voice on the other end asking for someone he was not. ↗

— Paul Auster

#dead #end #night #number #other

We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate as personalities are the ones who lose that thread. ↗

— Paul Auster

#day #follow #lose #narrative #next