Paul Auster Quotes

There's no common taste in this world.

Travel is very subjective. What one person loves, another loathes.

I like some things other people don't like, and they like stuff I don't like.

One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.

Football's all about opinions, all of them different, whether from a top analyst or a man in a bunnet, and some folk are just never going to like you.

To me, nothing in the art world is neutral. The idea of 'disinterest' strikes me as boring, dishonest, dubious, and uninteresting.

All my favorite movies are somebody else's least favorite movie.

Beauty is altogether in the eye of the beholder.

I always said your best palate is your own, not mine. I'm a guidepost.

How much of a book review is about the reviewer? Sometimes it's mostly about the reviewer!

Sometimes people say, 'Oh you did one of my favorite movies,' and I will ask them what the other one is, and it's always something that I totally hate.

I'm not going to get into the writer's skills or what he was trying to portray because that's not fair. I can only say what I felt was trying to be portrayed there.

There is no such things as 'best' in the world of individuals.

My own personal taste in films as a member of the audience was not completely in line with films I was doing.

Theatre critics have no special access to the truth. And there should be no objective truth to art.

In my reviews, I feel it's good to make it clear that I'm not proposing objective truth, but subjective reactions; a review should reflect the immediate experience.

At its best, entertainment is going to be a subjective thing that can't win for everyone, while at worst, a particular game just becomes a random symbol for petty tribal behavior.

I don't usually read reviews.

The fact is that you're never gonna believe any of the reviews, because the movie is to you what it is to you. No one's ever gonna sway you from what you feel about it.

I don't read reviews until after I'm done with a production, but when I do finally get to them, I'm always sort of floored by what the bad ones say.

If you're going to have more than one person read your book, they're going to have totally different opinions and responses. No person - no two people - read the same book.

I don't believe in expertise. I don't believe that a film critic feels a film more deeply than any person who walks into a theater. I don't believe that.

Everyone has their own taste, and you can argue about taste.

My view is my view. Your view is your view.

I think two different people can read one of my books and come away with completely different opinions on the subject. I hope they just read from the beginning to the end and be made to think about the subject. Then they can come to their own conclusions.