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
When the publisher here in America wanted to put the word "memoir" on the title page [of 'Winter Journal'] and on the… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
My children haven't read 'Winter Journal'. They have read some of my work, but I really don't foist it on them. I… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I wrote Report from the Interior was that after I finished Winter Journal, I took a pause, and I realized there was… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
He knew that his wings could ignite at any moment, but the closer he came to touching the fire, the more he… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I have to say in premise 'Winter Journal' is really not a memoir. And I don't even think of it as an… — 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
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
What I'm trying to do [in Winter Journal] is to tell the story of a man's life from birth, but there are… — 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