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
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
I see myself as anybody, as everybody; I'm not just telling the story of my life to give the reader a picture… — 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
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
In my life, I've lived in very different kinds of places - very tiny rooms when I was young. And you do… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
As long as a man had the courage to reject what society told him to do, he could live life on his… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Libraries aren't in the real world, after all. They're places apart, sanctuaries of pure thought. In this way I can go on… — 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
When young people say I want to be a novelist, I'd say, think very carefully about it. There will be very few… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
He no longer wished to be dead. At the same time, it cannot be said that he was glad to be alive.… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
This is very rare for anyone in life to pursue something and that thing being the thing you actually most want to… — 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 felt the taste of mortality in my mouth, and at that moment I understood that I was not going to live… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“It was one of the most sublimely exhilarating moments of my life. I was half a step in front of the real,… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
There is nothing more terrible, I learned, than having to face the objects of a dead man. Things are inert: that have… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
For a man who finds life tolerable only by staying on the surface of himself, it is natural to be satisfied with… — 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
"The weird world rolls on..." meaning that through all the ups and downs, all the travails that we go through, all the… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
In general, lives seem to veer abruptly from one thing to another, to jostle and bump, to squirm. A person heads in… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“Life got in the way -- two years in the army, work, marriage, family responsibilities, the need to earn more and more… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
All my novels are very much directly related to my inner life, even though I'm inventing characters, even though it's fiction, even… — 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
“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
“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
Our lives don't really belong to us, you see -- they belong to the world, and in spite of our efforts to… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Existence was bigger than just life. It was everyone's life all together, and even if you lived in Buffalo, New York and… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“The point is: his life was not centered around the place where he lived. His house was just one of many stopping… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
The childhood scenes [ in The Tree of Life] are tremendous. My favorite moment is when the mother levitate - for three… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In… — 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
There's a difference between doing memoir and writing a novel. If I had put the story of the boy killing my dog… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I use things, I steal things from my life when I want to, when I need to, or when it seems appropriate.… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“I tend to think that everything counts. In the end, each life is no more than the sum of contingent facts, a… — 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
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
For the first time in his life, he stopped worrying about results, and as a consequence the terms “success” and “failure” had… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Every life is inexplicable, I kept telling myself. No matter how many facts are told, no matter how many details are given,… — 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
I've dealt with numbers all my life, of course, and after a while you begin to feel that each number has a… — 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
“No es que escribir me produzca un gran placer, pero es mucho peor si no lo hago.” — Paul Auster Copy Share
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
The joke is the purest, most essential form of storytelling. Every word has to count. — Paul Auster Copy Share
“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
I had made an empirical discovery and it carried all the weight of a mathematical proof. — Paul Auster Copy Share
As long as there's one person to believe it, there's no story that can't be true. — Paul Auster Copy Share
Writing has always had a tactile quality for me. It's a physical experience. — Paul Auster Copy Share
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
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
Our lifelong certainties about the world can be demolished in a single second. — Paul Auster Copy Share
The ideal reader's the same, and I suppose this person has never had a face or a gender or an age. It's just some… — Paul Auster Copy Share
“Most lives vanish. A person dies, and little by little all traces of that life disappear. An inventor survives in his inventions, an architect… — Paul Auster Copy Share
![“There is nothing more terrible, I learned, than having to face the objects of a dead man. Things are inert: that have meaning only in function of the life that makes use of them. When that life ends, the things change, even though they remain the same. […] they say something to us, standing there…” quote by Paul Auster](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/367/paul-auster-351_consciousness_there-is-nothing-more-terrible-i-learned_1584072.jpg)
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