Becoming a writer is not a 'career decision' like becoming a doctor or a policeman. You don't choose it so much as… — 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
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 don't have all the facts. And I might misremember. As a matter of fact, after I finished Winter Journal, I realized… — 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
He no longer wished to be dead. At the same time, it cannot be said that he was glad to be alive.… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
For example, when I was writing Leviathan, which was written both in New York and in Vermont - I think there were… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
In fact, writing, especially writing autobiographical works, and this is actually the fourth time I've done it, each time I've done it… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Then, without any warning, we both straightened up, turned towards each other, and began to kiss. After that, it is difficult for… — 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
