I don't think that you can be prescriptive about anything, I mean, life is too complicated. Maybe there are novels where the… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“... that once you throw your life to the winds, you will discover things you had never known before, things that cannot… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was… — 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
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 don't know if she should worry too much, I mean some of our greatest writers have had movies made of their… — 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
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
There are certain phrases in books of mine, and I don't know where they came from, or how I was capable of… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
When you pick up a book, everyone knows it's imaginary. You don't have to pretend it's not a book. We don't have… — 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 Image
“No es que escribir me produzca un gran placer, pero es mucho peor si no lo hago.” — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
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 Image
The joke is the purest, most essential form of storytelling. Every word has to count. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“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 Image
I had made an empirical discovery and it carried all the weight of a mathematical proof. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
As long as there's one person to believe it, there's no story that can't be true. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Writing has always had a tactile quality for me. It's a physical experience. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
Our lifelong certainties about the world can be demolished in a single second. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
