Paul Auster Quotes About Age

Quotes about: Age

• Yes, she is in love with him, and yes, in spite of his qualms and inner hesitations, he loves her back, however improbable that might seem to him. Note here for the record that he is not someone with a special fixation on young girls. Until now, all the women in his life have been more or less his own age. Pilar therefore does not represent an embodiment of some ideal female type for him--she is merely herself, a small piece of luck he stumbled across one afternoon in a public park, an exception to every rule.

  Paul Auster

  Girl, Luck, Age

  Paul Auster (2016). “Collected Novels Volume Four”, p.400, Faber & Faber

• Eighteen is a terrible age, and while I walked around with the conviction that I was somehow more grown-up than my classmates, the truth was that I had merely found a different way of being young.

  Paul Auster

  Age, Different, Way

  Paul Auster (2010). “Moon Palace: A Novel (Penguin Ink)”, p.21, Penguin

• I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn't think I could do anything else. So I read and read and wrote short stories and dreamed of escape.

  Paul Auster

  Thinking, Age, Stories

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

• The ideal reader's the same, and I suppose this person has never had a face or a gender or an age. It's just some kind of unknown other who will be sympathetic and read each word carefully and understand what I'm writing about. I suppose every writer feels this.

  Paul Auster

  Writing, Age, Faces

  Interview with Lotte Hansen, www.timeout.com.

• I feel now, in my impending old age, very lucky. I just can't tell you how lucky I feel, that I've managed to first of all, stay alive this long, in reasonably good health, and that I've been able to do what I want to do.

  Paul Auster

  Long, Age, Firsts

  Interview with Lotte Hansen, www.timeout.com.

• 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.

• I think I hate cynicism more than anything else. It's the curse of our age, and I want to avoid it at all costs.

  Paul Auster

  Hate, Thinking, Age

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