What if I had been born during a war and I lived in an occupied city, and people were being taken out… — 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 life is inexplicable, I kept telling myself. No matter how many facts are told, no matter how many details are given,… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
All children are love children, he said, but only the best ones are ever called that. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
It's an ethical pact I've made with myself and with the reader - not to invent. And when I can't remember, I… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
"The weird world rolls on..." meaning that through all the ups and downs, all the travails that we go through, all the… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
In Invisible there's a lot about childhood, the death of the brother and then the relationship between the brother and sister. — 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
Children, I mean, think of your own childhood, how important the bedtime story was. How important these imaginary experiences were for you.… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
What used to keep me up at night was the fact that I didn't know how I was going to pay the… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
There are often references to childhood, but they're rarely the focus of the [my] novels. — 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
There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“you can’t punish someone for a lack of affection, can you? You can’t force a child to love you just because he’s… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“the sage Lenny Millstein, who not only was an excellent basketball man but an excellent person as well, who knew how to… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story, when our… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I thought, "Well, I'm writing about early childhood, so maybe it would make sense to write about late childhood as well, early… — 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
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