Fiction Quotes by Paul Auster

Fiction creating reality.

— Paul Auster

The fiction is not autobiographical. Maybe to some extent it is, of course.

— Paul Auster

The kind of fiction I'm trying to write is about telling the truth.

— Paul Auster

No one wants to be part of a fiction, and even less so if that fiction is real.

— Paul Auster

I think human beings wouldn't be human without narrative fiction.

— Paul Auster

Novels are fictions and therefore they tell lies, but through those lies every novelist attempts to tell the truth about the world.

— Paul Auster

The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly.

— Paul Auster

You can look at my autobiographical pieces as source books... But, you see, my fiction doesn't revolve around autobiographical questions.

— Paul Auster

Once you finish a book, it doesn't belong to you anymore. You're giving it to other people. If something in what a…

— Paul Auster

All my novels are very much directly related to my inner life, even though I'm inventing characters, even though it's fiction, even…

— Paul Auster

Memoirs have dominated the literary scene now for ten or 20 or even 30 years: most of them seem to use the…

— Paul Auster

There's a difference between doing memoir and writing a novel. If I had put the story of the boy killing my dog…

— Paul Auster

Children, I mean, think of your own childhood, how important the bedtime story was. How important these imaginary experiences were for you.…

— Paul Auster

For example, when I was writing Leviathan, which was written both in New York and in Vermont - I think there were…

— Paul Auster

I say at the very end of "Winter Journal" that I do dream about my father often. I think I have a…

— Paul Auster

Autobiographical writings, essays, interviews, various other things... All the non-fiction prose I wanted to keep, that was the idea behind this collected…

— Paul Auster

“Quinn froze. There was nothing he could do now that would not be a mistake. Whatever choice he made--and he had to…

— Paul Auster