Money, of course, is never just money. It's always something else, and it's always something more, and it always has the last… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I know the pleasure you get from making your films. The intense involvement in every aspect: the acting, the camera, the colors,… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“The moon people do not eat by swallowing food but by smelling it. Their money is poetry - actual poems, written out… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“George Washington chopped down the tree, and then he threw away the money. Do you understand? He was telling us an essential… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“Little by little, as you came to know her better in the weeks that followed, you discovered that eye to eye on… — paul auster Copy Share Image
Money is the driving force of Hand to Mouth, the lack of money, and all those true stories about strange things in… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
When young people say I want to be a novelist, I'd say, think very carefully about it. There will be very few… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“You’re a dreamer, boy,” he said. “Your mind is on the moon, and from the looks of things, it’s never going to… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Money's important. Everyone cares about money. And when you don't have money, money becomes the overriding obsession of your life. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“That was the real difference, Ferguson concluded. Not too little money or too much money, not what a person did or failed… — 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
