Paul Auster Quotes

To travel, to experience and learn: that is to live.

Writing is an incessant process of discovery.

I write about what I know; and I write about things that are new to me, and that I didn't know before.

Traveling is one expression of the desire to cross boundaries.

Every time I make a film, I feel it gives me the chance to learn something new.

I'm constantly being approached by people who say, 'You've introduced me to a new world that I didn't even know I liked.' Even if I didn't set out to do that, I'm very proud that I have.

The part of the process that's exciting to me is feeling like I'm in a place I've never been before, in every way. Without that, I don't know if I'd be a writer.

I wanted to explore the world and explore life. I wanted to have more to life than Flint.

At the beginning we learn to travel, then we travel to learn.

Voyage, travel, and change of place impart vigor

Reading is also a journey. It's a process of discovery.

With books at least, the best experiences are not when you find what you were looking for, but when something quite different finds you, takes you by surprise, shifts your tastes to new territory.

What I find to be very bad advice is the snappy little sentence, 'Write what you know.' It is the most tiresome and stupid advice that could possibly be given. If we write simply about what we know we never grow. We don't develop any facility for languages, or an interest in others, or a desire to travel and explore and face experience head-on. We just coil tighter and tighter into our boring little selves. What one should write about is what interests one.

Newness inspires me. New opportunities. New places. New experiences. Learning new things, new skills. New roles!

So much of writing is discovery. Sometimes I feel like a rat in a maze, trying to discover the way out. My little heart is beating, and I'm racing down a path thinking, this is the route, it will get me there, as I turn this way and then that.

Travel, like dreams, is a door that opens from the real world into a world that is yet to be discovered

Nothing is as boundary dissolving, except for psychedelic compounds, as travel. Travel is up there.

We rarely know where we are going; writing is a discovery.

I come alive when there is a chance to learn or do something different.

I went from staring at the same four walls for 21 years to seeing the whole world in just 12 months.

A person needs new experiences. They jar something deep inside, allowing you to grow. Without them, it sleeps- seldom to awaken. The sleeper must awaken.

Learn something new. Try something different. Convince yourself that you have no limits.

When you #‎ travel , you experience, in a very practical way, the act of #‎ rebirth .

It's really useful to travel, if you want to see new things.

I love challenging myself, doing different things and exploring different areas that I haven't been to or gone to before. That's what I love about acting, and that's what I love about film.