“Guilt kept me going. It was impossible not to blame myself for what had happened, but even guilt was a comfort. It… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
To leave the world a little better than you found it. That's the best a man can ever do. — 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
What better portrait of a writer than to show a man who has been bewitched by books? — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Every book is an image of solitude. It is a tangible object that one can pick up, put down, open, and close,… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I think that's what turns young men and women into writers - the happiness you discover living in books. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I had jumped off the edge, and then, at the very last moment, something reached out and caught me in midair. That… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Wounds are an essential part of life, and until you are wounded in some way, you cannot become a man. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
All men contain several men inside them, and most of us bounce from one self to another without ever knowing who we… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
There is nothing more terrible, I learned, than having to face the objects of a dead man. Things are inert: that have… — 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 was always very curious as a young man about why older writers who I met seemed so indifferent to what was… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
For a man who finds life tolerable only by staying on the surface of himself, it is natural to be satisfied with… — 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
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 Copy Share Image
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 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
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