hameye ma dar barkhord ba gozashte chenin raftar…

“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

“No es que escribir me produzca un gran placer, pero es mucho peor si no lo hago.”

— Paul Auster

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

I'm not a man deeply interested in technology. It eludes me.

— Paul Auster

The joke is the purest, most essential form of storytelling. Every word has to count.

— Paul Auster

“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

I had made an empirical discovery and it carried all the weight of a mathematical proof.

— Paul Auster

As long as there's one person to believe it, there's no story that can't be true.

— Paul Auster

Writing has always had a tactile quality for me. It's a physical experience.

— Paul Auster

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

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

Our lifelong certainties about the world can be demolished in a single second.

— Paul Auster

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

“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

“and cut down many trees. When the Humans”

— Paul Auster