The joke is the purest, most essential form of storytelling. Every word has to count. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Even when I'm just sitting at my desk, I have to get up every twenty minutes or so and walk around, walk… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“knowing now that the job of writing was as much about removing words as adding them,” — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“Language, then, not simply as a list of separate things to be added up and whose sum total is equal to the… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Take a report. It's dry, the sentences are clunky and unfelicitous, they're just conveying information. But it seems to me that if… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
A book, at the same time, also has to do with what I call a buzz in the head. It's a certain… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
In the good mystery there is nothing wasted, no sentence, no word that is not significant. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“Words do not necessarily work, it is possible for them to obscure the things they are trying to say.” — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I guess the toughest things in translations are word play, which can never be reproduced exactly. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
To care about words, to have a stake in what is written, to believe in the power of books - this overwhelms… — 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
“So it goes as I work my way down the page, and each cluster of marks is a word, and each word… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“Yes. A language that will at last say what we have to say. For our words no longer correspond to the world.… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“Words were no longer simply words, but a curious codes of silence, a way of speaking that continually moved around the thing… — 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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