I'm generous. I give good tips. It's just - the way I live my life, ironically enough, is: I don't want anything.… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“The world was full of holes, tiny apertures of meaninglessness, microscopic rifts that the mind could walk through, and once you were… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“The whole scene had an imaginary quality to it. I knew that it was real, but at the same time it was… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Don't be a writer, it's a terrible way to live your life, there's nothing to be gained from it but poverty and… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I know that what's happened in the election has changed American reality, and I understand that I have to change with it.… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Our lives carry us along in ways we cannot control, and almost nothing stays with us. It dies when we do, and… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“in the end, each life is irreducible to anything other than itself. Which is as much as to say: lives make no… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
People who don't like my work say that the connections seem too arbitrary. But that's how life is. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“You’re a dreamer, boy,” he said. “Your mind is on the moon, and from the looks of things, it’s never going to… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Money's important. Everyone cares about money. And when you don't have money, money becomes the overriding obsession of your life. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“…but the truly frightening thing was to learn that his mother was no stronger than he was, that the blows of the… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
When a person is lucky enough to live inside a story, to live inside an imaginary world, the pains of this world… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“the sage Lenny Millstein, who not only was an excellent basketball man but an excellent person as well, who knew how to… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I'm living in the present, thinking about the past, hoping for the future. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
it's a rare day when she speaks in anything but platitudes--all those exhausted phrases and hand-me-down ideas that cram the dump sites… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Surely it is an odd way to spend your life - sitting alone in a room with a pen in your hand,… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I don't think that you can be prescriptive about anything, I mean, life is too complicated. Maybe there are novels where the… — 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
In other words: It seems to me that I will always be happy in the place where I am not. Or, more… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“... that once you throw your life to the winds, you will discover things you had never known before, things that cannot… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“When you've lived as long as I have, you tend to think you've heard everything, that there's nothing left that can shock… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“The big event that rips through the heart of things and changes life for everyone, the unforgettable moment when something ends and… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“but back then, at thirty-five, thirty-eight, forty, I walked around with a feeling that my life had never truly belonged to me,… — 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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