You can't put your feet on the ground un... by Paul Auster | We Heart Quotes

Author Novelist Pulitzer Prize Feet New York

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

- Paul Auster

Other quotes by Paul Auster

Books

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

People

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

Job

It's extremely difficult to get these jobs because you can't get a job on a ship unless you have seaman's paper's, and you can't get seaman's papers unless you have a job on a ship. There had to be a way to break through the circle, and he was the one who arranged it for me.

- Paul Auster

Money Time

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.

- Paul Auster

Writers Movies

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

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

- Paul Auster

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