Quotes by Auster, Paul

We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we >>

Quotations about Story and Story-Telling

One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories. >>

We are lonesome animals. We spend all our life trying to be less lones >>

A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled. >>

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.

Auster, Paul