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
I was born just after the end of World War II, and with my friends in our little suburban backyards in New… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
My characters, I find them as I'm writing. It's quite incredible how fully realized they are in my mind, how many details… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Writing is such a strange, utterly mysterious process. First, there was nothing; then, suddenly, there was something. I don't know where thoughts… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
While I was writing poems, I would often divert myself by reading detective novels, I liked them. And there was a period… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I don't know why I write. If I knew the answer, I probably wouldn't have to. But it is a compulsion. You… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Having made films, I know very well that the scope of the average 90- to 120-minute movie is about the same narrative… — 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
Most of the boys would come with bits of equipment that their fathers had given them from their war days - helmets,… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I don't like talking about my work at all. I find it very difficult. I never know what to say. It's too… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I was extremely shy. And I simply didn't know how to go about it. It seemed a lot easier to write than… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
A here exists only in relation to a there, not the other way around. There's this only because there's that; if we… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
There are certain phrases in books of mine, and I don't know where they came from, or how I was capable of… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
When you pick up a book, everyone knows it's imaginary. You don't have to pretend it's not a book. We don't have… — 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
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