I'm living in the present, thinking about the past, hoping for the future. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
How can you think about the world without factoring in the unforseen, the fluke event? — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I think all writers are a bit crazy; Damaged souls, incapable of doing anything else. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
[Charles] Reznikoff was in between faiths, in between worlds... a double, hyphenated American. I think it probably goes deeper than that. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Every generation always thinks it was better before, and I think people have been saying this for probably thousands of years. — 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 think there might be some pressure released while I'm doing autobiographical work, but afterwards everything remains the same. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Something happens, Blue thinks, and then it goes on happening forever. It can never be changed, can never be otherwise. — 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
I think that's what turns young men and women into writers - the happiness you discover living in books. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
You tend to feel very hurt when people attack you and feel indifferent when you get praise. You think, 'Of course they… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
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 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
I was very moved to see that the name of the boat was Hamlet - an imaginary character becomes so important to… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
A here exists only in relation to a there, not the other way around. There's this only because there's that; if we… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I think most writers can't really think about their work without a kind of revulsion. And I think that's probably why we… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
You think it will never happen to you, that it cannot happen to you, that you are the only person in the… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I don't think of myself as a metafictional writer at all. I think of myself as a classic writer, a realist writer,… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I think people are trying out ideas with the new technology and it's too early to say where it's going exactly. But… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Art is not politics. The glory of the novel is that in its essence, it is a democratic form, because it treats… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I don't even own a computer. I write by hand then I type it up on an old manual typewriter. But I… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Autobiographical writings, essays, interviews, various other things... All the non-fiction prose I wanted to keep, that was the idea behind this collected… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Generally, I don't want to do things. I feel lazy and unmotivated. It's only when an idea grabs hold of me and… — 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
No one was to blame for what happened, but that does not make it any less difficult to accept. It was all… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Each time he took a walk, he felt as though he were leaving himself behind, and by giving himself up to the… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I wanted to do something different. Therefore, the first person I thought would have been too exclusionary. It would have said me,… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
The best filmmakers, I think, have always had very narrow frameworks for their stories, and then they can go deeply, rather than… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
The most challenging project I've ever done, I think, is every single thing I've ever tried to do. It's never easy. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I don't think about the stories so much, as the characters themselves. They live on, and they are almost as real as… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn't think I could do… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I project myself so deeply into the characters in novels that I'm not thinking about my own life. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I do not repeat conversations that I can't remember. And it's something that irritates me a great deal, because I think most… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I think I hate cynicism more than anything else. It's the curse of our age, and I want to avoid it at… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
As Siri says, who is deeply involved with neuroscience, emotion consolidates memory, and I think that's true. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
When I think of Tokyo Story, yeah, it is like a novella. That doesn't mean it's not great. Some of my favorite… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
It always stimulates me to discover new examples of my own prejudice and stupidity, to realize that I don't know half as… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
The childhood scenes [ in The Tree of Life] are tremendous. My favorite moment is when the mother levitate - for three… — 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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