I say at the very end of "Winter Journal" that I do dream about my father often. I think I have a… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I was born just after the end of World War II, and with my friends in our little suburban backyards in New… — 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
In the end, each life is no more than the sum of contingent facts, a chronicle of chance intersections, of flukes, of… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I've been trying to fit everything in, trying to get to the end before it's too late, but I see now how… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
There is nothing more terrible, I learned, than having to face the objects of a dead man. Things are inert: that have… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
We exist for ourselves, perhaps, and at times we even have a glimmer of who we are, but in the end we… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the voice on… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
As long as a man had the courage to reject what society told him to do, he could live life on his… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
He slipped away slowly, withdrawing from this world by small, imperceptible degrees, and in the end it was as if he were… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Nothing lasts, you see, not even the thoughts inside you. And you musn't waste your time looking for them. Once a thing… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Betty died of a broken heart. Some people laugh when they hear that phrase, but that's because they don't know anything about… — 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
