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
I've dealt with numbers all my life, of course, and after a while you begin to feel that each number has a… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
My characters, I find them as I'm writing. It's quite incredible how fully realized they are in my mind, how many details… — 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
When I start, I have a feeling for the characters, and maybe the shape of the story. Sometimes I might even have… — 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
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
Memory and the imagination are almost identical. It's the same place in the brain and the same thing is happening. When you… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
All my novels are very much directly related to my inner life, even though I'm inventing characters, even though it's fiction, even… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
For some reason, all my characters come to me with their names attached to them. I never have to search for the… — 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
“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
