Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I never feel I'm standing on solid ground, and I do write with a certain kind of trembling fear. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I've been very lucky in this second marriage. It's just luck. It's absolute luck. And I can only marvel at it. So… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
You tend to feel very hurt when people attack you and feel indifferent when you get praise. You think, 'Of course they… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
When I look back at experience [with my father], all I can do is feel pity. You know, how torn he was… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I am very scared at the beginning of each book, because I've never written it before. I feel I have to teach… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I don't like pictures in books. I feel that the pictures diminish the words, and the words diminish the pictures, and it… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I feel now, in my impending old age, very lucky. I just can't tell you how lucky I feel, that I've managed… — 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
To tell you the truth, I'm not unhappy about it. I'm not even sure that I like the idea of adapting novels… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I don't even own a computer. I write by hand then I type it up on an old manual typewriter. But I… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I feel I'm discovering something new, a different rhythm, and I guess these rhythms have a lot to do with walking, too,… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I sometimes feel that my goal as a novelist would be to write a novel in which the language was so transparent… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
The ideal reader's the same, and I suppose this person has never had a face or a gender or an age. It's… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
When I write, the story is always uppermost in my mind, and I feel that everything must be sacrificed to it. All… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I feel that the act of writing, in and of itself, is a tool towards probing that which you wouldn't without that… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Each time he took a walk, he felt as though he were leaving himself behind, and by giving himself up to the… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
When the father dies, he writes, the son becomes his own father and his own son. He looks at is son and… — 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
Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
When I am writing, even though it's hard and I do struggle often, I am happier than when I'm not writing. I… — 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
“No es que escribir me produzca un gran placer, pero es mucho peor si no lo hago.” — Paul Auster Copy Share
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
The joke is the purest, most essential form of storytelling. Every word has to count. — Paul Auster Copy Share
“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
I had made an empirical discovery and it carried all the weight of a mathematical proof. — Paul Auster Copy Share
As long as there's one person to believe it, there's no story that can't be true. — Paul Auster Copy Share
Writing has always had a tactile quality for me. It's a physical experience. — Paul Auster Copy Share
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
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
Our lifelong certainties about the world can be demolished in a single second. — Paul Auster Copy Share
The ideal reader's the same, and I suppose this person has never had a face or a gender or an age. It's just some… — Paul Auster Copy Share
“Most lives vanish. A person dies, and little by little all traces of that life disappear. An inventor survives in his inventions, an architect… — Paul Auster Copy Share
![“When I look back at experience [with my father], all I can do is feel pity. You know, how torn he was about how to act, what to say. And it seems an important story to me.” quote by Paul Auster](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/27f/paul-auster-351_can-do_when-i-look-back-at-experience-with-my-f_1522564.jpg)
