“You can't hate something so violently unless a part of you also loves it.” — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
All children are love children, he said, but only the best ones are ever called that. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“Real love...is when you get as much pleasure from giving pleasure as you do from receiving it.” — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“as a solitary, celibate, unloved bachelor searching for love as a stranger in a new town” — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
...once you fell in love with her, you loved her until the day you died. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“I know you don't love me but that doesn't mean I'm the wrong girl for you.” — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“you can’t punish someone for a lack of affection, can you? You can’t force a child to love you just because he’s… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“... love was not a quantifiable substance. There was always more of it somewhere, and even after one love had been lost,… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
The funny thing is that I feel close to all my characters. Deep, deep inside them all. I can't describe how deeply… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Bodies count, of course - they count more than we're willing to admit - but we don't fall in love with bodies,… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I had jumped off the edge, and then, at the very last moment, something reached out and caught me in midair. That… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“... I chanced upon these words from a letter by Van Gogh: "Like everyone else, I feel the need of family and… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“But fierce as my attraction was, I also knew that it was more than just a physical attraction [...], more than just… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
"The weird world rolls on..." meaning that through all the ups and downs, all the travails that we go through, all the… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“No, she can weather his disappointments if she has to, that isn't the problem, she can put up with anything as long… — paul auster Copy Share Image
Yes, she is in love with him, and yes, in spite of his qualms and inner hesitations, he loves her back, however… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Normal. What did normal mean, Ferguson asked himself , and why wasn't it normal for him to feel the way he did… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“Bit by bit, I found myself relaxing into the conversation. Kitty had a natural talent for drawing people out of themselves, and… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“Little by little, as you came to know her better in the weeks that followed, you discovered that eye to eye on… — paul auster Copy Share Image
“Now that you are living on such intimate terms with her, Gwyn has emerged as a slightly different person... She is both… — 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
![“But fierce as my attraction was, I also knew that it was more than just a physical attraction [...], more than just a momentenry surge of animal desire. I understood that she wasn't a terribly articulate person and nothing she said that afternoon was particularly brilliant or memorable. And yet…” quote by Paul Auster](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/bee/paul-auster-351_desire_but-fierce-as-my-attraction-was-i-also-k_1172229.jpg)
