The pen will never be able to move fast enough to write down every word discovered in the space of memory. Some… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Each man, therefore, is the entire world, bearing within his genes a memory of all mankind. Or as Leibniz put it: ‘Every… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Holes in the memory. You grab on to some things, others have completely disappeared. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
As Siri says, who is deeply involved with neuroscience, emotion consolidates memory, and I think that's true. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Memory and the imagination are almost identical. It's the same place in the brain and the same thing is happening. When you… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“It's not just that things vanish--but once they vanish, the memory of them vanishes as well. Dark areas form in the brain,… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“He realized that for Ponge there was no division between the work of writing and the work of seeing. For no word… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“Memory, therefore, not simply as the resurrection of one’s private past, but an immersion in the past of others, which is to… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
It's beyond the grasp of anyone's memory to recall conversations in kind of [memoir] detail. So it's fake. It's all made up. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“It is also true that memory sometimes comes to him as a voice. It is a voice that speaks inside him, and… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“... he had understood that memory was a place, a real place that one could visit, and that to spend a few… — 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
