Life Quotes by Paul Auster

“One day there is life . . . and then, suddenly, it happens there is death”

— Paul Auster

I'm living in the present, thinking about the past, hoping for the future.

— Paul Auster

Every man is the author of his own life.

— Paul Auster

“The world is governed by chance. Randomness stalks us every day of our lives.”

— Paul Auster

People who don't like my work say that the connections seem too arbitrary. But that's how life is.

— Paul Auster

Our lives carry us along in ways we cannot control, and almost nothing stays with us. It dies when we do, and…

— Paul Auster

Most people are participating in the grand adventure of living with one another.

— Paul Auster

“in the end, each life is irreducible to anything other than itself. Which is as much as to say: lives make no…

— Paul Auster

Baseball is a universe as large as life itself, and therefore all things in life, whether good or bad, whether tragic or…

— Paul Auster

Writing is a solitary business. It takes over your life. In some sense, a writer has no life of his own. Even…

— Paul Auster

All through my writing life, I've had this impulse to write autobiographical works.

— Paul Auster

Wounds are an essential part of life, and until you are wounded in some way, you cannot become a man.

— Paul Auster

Libraries aren't in the real world, after all. They're places apart, sanctuaries of pure thought. In this way I can go on…

— Paul Auster

He knew that his wings could ignite at any moment, but the closer he came to touching the fire, the more he…

— Paul Auster

When young people say I want to be a novelist, I'd say, think very carefully about it. There will be very few…

— Paul Auster

Don't be a writer; it's a terrible way to live your life. There's nothing to be gained from it but poverty and…

— Paul Auster

As long as a man had the courage to reject what society told him to do, he could live life on his…

— Paul Auster

In my life, I've lived in very different kinds of places - very tiny rooms when I was young. And you do…

— Paul Auster

Don't be a writer, it's a terrible way to live your life, there's nothing to be gained from it but poverty and…

— Paul Auster

Each man, therefore, is the entire world, bearing within his genes a memory of all mankind. Or as Leibniz put it: ‘Every…

— Paul Auster

“but back then, at thirty-five, thirty-eight, forty, I walked around with a feeling that my life had never truly belonged to me,…

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Surely it is an odd way to spend your life - sitting alone in a room with a pen in your hand,…

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“I felt the taste of mortality in my mouth, and at that moment I understood that I was not going to live…

— Paul Auster

This is very rare for anyone in life to pursue something and that thing being the thing you actually most want to…

— Paul Auster

There is nothing more terrible, I learned, than having to face the objects of a dead man. Things are inert: that have…

— Paul Auster

“It was one of the most sublimely exhilarating moments of my life. I was half a step in front of the real,…

— Paul Auster

We are left with nothing but death, the irreducible fact of our own mortality. Death after a long illness we can accept…

— Paul Auster

“I gave up trying to be anyone," he said. "The object of my life was to remove myself from my surroundings, to…

— Paul Auster

“Little by little, as you came to know her better in the weeks that followed, you discovered that eye to eye on…

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“Now that you are living on such intimate terms with her, Gwyn has emerged as a slightly different person... She is both…

— Paul Auster

“Try to roll with the punches. Keep your chin up. Don’t take any wooden nickels. Vote Democrat in every election. Ride your…

— Paul Auster

“If I hit that tree with this stone, Rousseau says, all will go well in my life from now on. He throws…

— Paul Auster

“Most lives vanish. A person dies, and little by little all traces of that life disappear. An inventor survives in his inventions,…

— Paul Auster

Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing.

— Paul Auster

Money's important. Everyone cares about money. And when you don't have money, money becomes the overriding obsession of your life.

— Paul Auster

Chance is an element of life. What I try to do is study what I call the mechanics of reality as carefully…

— Paul Auster

I'm generous. I give good tips. It's just - the way I live my life, ironically enough, is: I don't want anything.…

— Paul Auster

I see myself as anybody, as everybody; I'm not just telling the story of my life to give the reader a picture…

— Paul Auster

But lost chances are as much a part of life as chances taken, and a story cannot dwell on what might have…

— Paul Auster

it's a rare day when she speaks in anything but platitudes--all those exhausted phrases and hand-me-down ideas that cram the dump sites…

— Paul Auster