As long as there's one person to believe it, there's no story that can't be true. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Becoming a writer is not a 'career decision' like becoming a doctor or a policeman. You don't choose it so much as… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
At that point, Noriko finally breaks down and begins to cry sobbing into her hands as the floodgates open - this young… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I feel now, in my impending old age, very lucky. I just can't tell you how lucky I feel, that I've managed… — 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
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
I write different kinds of sentences, depending on what the book is, and what the project is. I see my work evolving.… — 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
Movies are not novels, and that's why, when filmmakers try to adapt novels, particularly long or complex novels, the result is almost… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
We are left with nothing but death, the irreducible fact of our own mortality. Death after a long illness we can accept… — 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
