“Books force you to give something back to them, to exercise your intelligence and imagination.” — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
What better portrait of a writer than to show a man who has been bewitched by books? — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
You find the book in the process of doing it. That's the adventure of the job. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I never experiment with anything in my books. Experimentation means you don't know what you're doing. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I am very scared at the beginning of each book, because I've never written it before. I feel I have to teach… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I hate reading digital books. I don't enjoy the experience. I like smelling the paper, turning the pages. I think the book… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“I learned that books are never finished, that it is possible for stories to go on writing themselves without an author.” — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I think that sense of unreality inspired me to write the story within the book that [August] Brill tells himself, one of… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
As long as a man had the courage to reject what society told him to do, he could live life on his… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
To care about words, to have a stake in what is written, to believe in the power of books - this overwhelms… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I think that's what turns young men and women into writers - the happiness you discover living in books. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
When you pick up a book, everyone knows it's imaginary. You don't have to pretend it's not a book. We don't have… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Actually, screenplays were much more detailed than what I did in the book In the book I had to invent a style… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
You can't ever approach a book as a complete virgin, certainly not if you're a critic. There is a lot of bad… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Every book is an image of solitude. It is a tangible object that one can pick up, put down, open, and close,… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Everyone reads a different book. That's what's interesting. Everyone sees a different film, as well. We bring our past lives to whatever… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
As a poet or a novelist or a painter, you are pushing yourself all the time, always looking for a new way… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“I was in the book, and the book was in my head, and as long as I stayed inside my head, I… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“Each book is a new book. I’ve never written it before and I have to teach myself how to write it as… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I say at the very end of "Winter Journal" that I do dream about my father often. I think I have a… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I remember I thought I should become a doctor, even though I had no talent for science whatsoever. Then of course, until… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
A book, at the same time, also has to do with what I call a buzz in the head. It's a certain… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Every life is inexplicable, I kept telling myself. No matter how many facts are told, no matter how many details are given,… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
The tone of every book is slightly different; there's a music that each has that is distinct from all the others. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
You see, the interesting thing about books, as opposed, say, to films, is that it's always just one person encountering the book,… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
The biggest book for me, when I was fifteen, was Crime and Punishment, which I read in a kind of fever. When… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
You can look at my autobiographical pieces as source books... But, you see, my fiction doesn't revolve around autobiographical questions. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I woke up one day and thought: 'I want to write a book about the history of my body.' I could justify… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Each book I've done somehow finds its own unique form, a specific way it has to be written, and once I find… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
No book includes the entire world. It's limited. And so it doesn't seem like an aesthetic compromise to have to do that.… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I've written books that have taken me fifteen years, from first sentence to last, and some that only take three or four… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I don't like pictures in books. I feel that the pictures diminish the words, and the words diminish the pictures, and it… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I don't know if she should worry too much, I mean some of our greatest writers have had movies made of their… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
In my books, there are a lot of people stuck in rooms. Or, conversely, out in the wide open. It seems that,… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
The book that convinced me I wanted to be a writer was 'Crime and Punishment'. I put the thing down after reading… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
When I start, I have a feeling for the characters, and maybe the shape of the story. Sometimes I might even have… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“On his best walks, he was able to feel that he was nowhere. And this, finally, was all he ever asked of things: to… — Paul Auster Copy Share
“No es que escribir me produzca un gran placer, pero es mucho peor si no lo hago.” — Paul Auster Copy Share
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… — Paul Auster Copy Share
The joke is the purest, most essential form of storytelling. Every word has to count. — Paul Auster Copy Share
“What people saw when he appeared before them, then, was not really him, but a person he had invented, an artificial creature he could… — Paul Auster Copy Share
I had made an empirical discovery and it carried all the weight of a mathematical proof. — Paul Auster Copy Share
As long as there's one person to believe it, there's no story that can't be true. — Paul Auster Copy Share
Writing has always had a tactile quality for me. It's a physical experience. — Paul Auster Copy Share
People look at the same passage, and one person will say this is the best thing he's ever read, and another person will say… — Paul Auster Copy Share
I was very moved to see that the name of the boat was Hamlet - an imaginary character becomes so important to people, we… — Paul Auster Copy Share
Our lifelong certainties about the world can be demolished in a single second. — Paul Auster Copy Share
The ideal reader's the same, and I suppose this person has never had a face or a gender or an age. It's just some… — Paul Auster Copy Share
“Most lives vanish. A person dies, and little by little all traces of that life disappear. An inventor survives in his inventions, an architect… — Paul Auster Copy Share
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