“People pushed by force of habit, pushed for the pure pleasure of pushing, and they would go on pushing until you showed… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
It became a habit of mine never to leave the house without a pencil in my pocket. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“No, she can weather his disappointments if she has to, that isn't the problem, she can put up with anything as long… — paul auster Copy Share Image
“there is only this world and that numbing routines and brief squabbles and financial worries are an essential part of it, that… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“Nevertheless, this anger was inside him—I believe constantly. Like the house that was well ordered and yet falling apart from within, the… — paul auster Copy Share Image
“If your only motive is to be loved, to ingratiate yourself with the crowd, you're bound to fall into bad habits, and… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“For if you do not consider the man before you to be human, there are few constraints of conscience on your behavior… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“but a noble cause demanded noble behavior from its advocates, something finer and more self-controlled than run-of-the-mill insults and cheap, adolescent shots.” — 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
