Men Quotes by Paul Auster

Every man is the author of his own life.

— Paul Auster

I think that's what turns young men and women into writers - the happiness you discover living in books.

— Paul Auster

I'm not a man deeply interested in technology. It eludes me. I confess I don't even have a computer, I don't have…

— Paul Auster

What better portrait of a writer than to show a man who has been bewitched by books?

— Paul Auster

Wounds are an essential part of life, and until you are wounded in some way, you cannot become a man.

— Paul Auster

To leave the world a little better than you found it. That's the best a man can ever do.

— Paul Auster

What I'm trying to do [in Winter Journal] is to tell the story of a man's life from birth, but there are…

— Paul Auster

All men contain several men inside them, and most of us bounce from one self to another without ever knowing who we…

— Paul Auster

As long as a man had the courage to reject what society told him to do, he could live life on his…

— Paul Auster

Every book is an image of solitude. It is a tangible object that one can pick up, put down, open, and close,…

— Paul Auster

I guess of all those novels, Don DeLillo's Falling Man is the one I like the best. I thought there were some…

— Paul Auster

Each man, therefore, is the entire world, bearing within his genes a memory of all mankind. Or as Leibniz put it: ‘Every…

— Paul Auster

I had jumped off the edge, and then, at the very last moment, something reached out and caught me in midair. That…

— Paul Auster

“Guilt kept me going. It was impossible not to blame myself for what had happened, but even guilt was a comfort. It…

— Paul Auster

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

We are left with nothing but death, the irreducible fact of our own mortality. Death after a long illness we can accept…

— Paul Auster

I was always very curious as a young man about why older writers who I met seemed so indifferent to what was…

— Paul Auster

There is nothing more terrible, I learned, than having to face the objects of a dead man. Things are inert: that have…

— Paul Auster

That's all I've ever dreamed of, Mr. Bones. To make the world a better place. To bring some beauty to the drab…

— Paul Auster

For a man who finds life tolerable only by staying on the surface of himself, it is natural to be satisfied with…

— Paul Auster

Impossible, I realize, to enter another’s solitude. If it is true that we can ever come to know another human being, even…

— Paul Auster