I say at the very end of "Winter Journal" that I do dream about my father often. I think I have a… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I'm really trying to dredge up what one might call intellectual and moral material. For example, when do you realize that you… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“Afterwards, walking to the car with my father, he told me I had played a nice game. No I hadn't, I said,… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
When the father dies, he writes, the son becomes his own father and his own son. He looks at is son and… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“You know now how deeply unhappy your mother was, and you also know that in his own fumbling way your father loved… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
The childhood scenes [ in The Tree of Life] are tremendous. My favorite moment is when the mother levitate - for three… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
When I look back at experience [with my father], all I can do is feel pity. You know, how torn he was… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“…but the truly frightening thing was to learn that his mother was no stronger than he was, that the blows of the… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Most of my friends' fathers had been in the war - either as soldiers or in some other capacity in the military.… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story, when our… — 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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![“When I look back at experience [with my father], all I can do is feel pity. You know, how torn he was about how to act, what to say. And it seems an important story to me.” quote by Paul Auster](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/27f/paul-auster-351_can-do_when-i-look-back-at-experience-with-my-f_1522564.jpg)
