Luis Borges Quotes by Paul Auster

“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

“No es que escribir me produzca un gran placer, pero es mucho peor si no lo hago.”

— Paul Auster

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

I'm not a man deeply interested in technology. It eludes me.

— Paul Auster

The joke is the purest, most essential form of storytelling. Every word has to count.

— Paul Auster

“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

I had made an empirical discovery and it carried all the weight of a mathematical proof.

— Paul Auster

As long as there's one person to believe it, there's no story that can't be true.

— Paul Auster

Writing has always had a tactile quality for me. It's a physical experience.

— Paul Auster

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

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

Our lifelong certainties about the world can be demolished in a single second.

— Paul Auster

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

“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

“and cut down many trees. When the Humans”

— Paul Auster