People look at the same passage, and one person will say this is the best thing he's ever read, and another person… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
In the end, the art of hunger can be described as an existential art. It is a way of looking death in… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I'd go nuts. Because people look at the same passage and one person will say this is the best thing he's ever… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
The mental state I'm in is completely different, but the act of trying to write is the same. I mean, in all… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I've been trying to fit everything in, trying to get to the end before it's too late, but I see now how… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I never experiment with anything in my books. Experimentation means you don't know what you're doing. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Children, I mean, think of your own childhood, how important the bedtime story was. How important these imaginary experiences were for you.… — 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
Stories without endings can do nothing but go on forever, and to be caught in one means that you must die before… — 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 wanted to do something different. Therefore, the first person I thought would have been too exclusionary. It would have said me,… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
The only person I knew how to be with now was myself - but I wasn´t really anyone, and I wasn´t really… — 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
There is a line from the Marina Tsvetaeva poem I'm so fond of: "In this most Christian of worlds/ All poets are… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I really, truly believe that writing comes out of the body; of course, the mind is working as well, but it's a… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I don't know if she should worry too much, I mean some of our greatest writers have had movies made of their… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
When I think of Tokyo Story, yeah, it is like a novella. That doesn't mean it's not great. Some of my favorite… — 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
