Paul Auster Quotes

I enjoy writing. I enjoy communicating and connecting.

Communication is important.

Writing means sharing. It's part of the human condition to want to share things - thoughts, ideas, opinions.

It's through engagement with the world, and not separation from it, that something with meaning gets produced.

Writing isn't letters on paper. It's communication. It's memory.

Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.

One of the reasons we're here is to be a part of this process of exchange.

Music is a dialogue.

Things change and work changes. Right now I like the idea of enveloping a space and getting messages across that connect to the world in ways that seem familiar but are different.

I think jamming is the way we begin to communicate. In the old days, people actually wrote notes on paper and sent them to each other. I guess that's how they jammed.

Connection is very important. It's extremely important for me to be connected and sharing with other people, giving them what I feel is important.

I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss - you can't do it alone.

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.

I'm trying to communicate here. I'm a communicator, I like to communicate, and if a million people buy it then we've touched a million people, if only 10 people buy it, then we've only touched 10, and that's important, because I'm satisfied with only 10. But, I love a million.

I love being in touch with my readers and fellow writers! It's just amazing to have such access to people.

Communication is everyone's panacea for everything.

A writer without a reader doesn't exist.

Talking to people is not giving them anything.

For me, it's always been one of my pet peeves to keep people engaged and talking, and just always being interested in what I have going on. To keep the level of creativity always turned up to the max.

Acting is about communicating, reacting, and sharing - and friendship is about all of those things, too.

Why write stories? To join the conversation.

Without a reader, I cannot write. It's like a kiss: they cannot be done alone.

It is of the nature of idea to be communicated: written, spoken, done. The idea is like grass. It craves light, likes crowds, thrives on crossbreeding, grows better for being stepped on.

Writing is a way of sharing our humanity.

Writing is an act of generosity toward other people.