“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
“One day there is life . . . and then, suddenly, it happens there is death” — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
In the end, the art of hunger can be described as an existential art. It is a way of looking death in… — 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
Our lives carry us along in ways we cannot control, and almost nothing stays with us. It dies when we do, and… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“When a man walks into a room and you shake hands with him, you do not feel that you are shaking hands… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“In spite of his physical efforts, he understands that he is afraid to go on reading the typescript. Why this fear should… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
We are left with nothing but death, the irreducible fact of our own mortality. Death after a long illness we can accept… — 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
