I'm living in the present, thinking about the past, hoping for the future. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“...feelings were always feelings, subjectively true one hundred percent of the time...” — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“But that was the beauty of this particular game. The moment you lost, you won.” — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
The pictures do not lie, but neither do they tell the whole story. They are merely a record of time passing, the… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“I want to talk about happiness and well being, about those rare, unexpected moments when the voice in your head goes silent… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“times i think u were the most cherished trophy i had, but sometimes i think i was the game that you played.” — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“Do you know what happened the last time a nation listened to a bush?" Honey asks. No one says a word. "Its… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“There is no escape from this. Either you do or you don't. And if you do, you can't be sure of doing… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I really do feel part of America to my very bones; at the same time, I know that I come from somewhere… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
History is present in all my novels. And whether I am directly talking about the sociological moment or just immersing my character… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“It's just that we shared a certain language, and when she talked to me about her past, I understood her without having… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I've been asked several times over the years to become president, and I've always said no, because I didn't want to give… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“Ferguson closed his eyes, paused for a long moment, and then turned to her and said: The best thing about being fifteen… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
He knew that his wings could ignite at any moment, but the closer he came to touching the fire, the more he… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to… — 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
“He is twenty-eight years old, and to the best of his knowledge he has no ambitions. No burning ambitions, in any case,… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Even when I'm just sitting at my desk, I have to get up every twenty minutes or so and walk around, walk… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“...and while all people were bound together by the common space they shared, their journeys through time were all different, which meant… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“It was all a matter of missed connections, bad timing, blundering in the dark. We were always in the right place at… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“I felt the taste of mortality in my mouth, and at that moment I understood that I was not going to live… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“It was one of the most sublimely exhilarating moments of my life. I was half a step in front of the real,… — 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
“The big event that rips through the heart of things and changes life for everyone, the unforgettable moment when something ends and… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
My children haven't read 'Winter Journal'. They have read some of my work, but I really don't foist it on them. I… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“Every time Sachs posed for a picture, he was forced to impersonate himself, to play the game of pretending to be who… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“Always lost, always striking out in the wrong direction, always going around in circles. You have suffered from a life-long inability to… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“It is also true that memory sometimes comes to him as a voice. It is a voice that speaks inside him, and… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“Everywhere I went during those days, the streets were filled with talk of the Mets. It was one of those rare moments… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“If I hit that tree with this stone, Rousseau says, all will go well in my life from now on. He throws… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“In his little speech to Alice, Humpty Dumpty sketches the future of human hopes and gives the clue to our salvation: to… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Nothing lasts, you see, not even the thoughts inside you. And you musn't waste your time looking for them. Once a thing… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“Everything solid for a time, and then the sun comes up one morning and the world begins to melt.” — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
After something crystallizes, I can write ferociously and write novels in six months, which in the past would have taken me two… — 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
“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
