“Most lives vanish. A person dies, and little by little all traces of that life disappear. An inventor survives in his inventions,… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“Little by little, as you came to know her better in the weeks that followed, you discovered that eye to eye on… — 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
“Deep down, I don’t believe it takes any special talent for a person to lift himself off the ground and hover in… — 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
“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
