As long as there's one person to believe it, there's no story that can't be true. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
The ideal reader's the same, and I suppose this person has never had a face or a gender or an age. It's… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
You think it will never happen to you, that it cannot happen to you, that you are the only person in the… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I'd go nuts. Because people look at the same passage and one person will say this is the best thing he's ever… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I believe that every artist, in one way or another, is a wounded person. It's not natural to make art. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
In general, lives seem to veer abruptly from one thing to another, to jostle and bump, to squirm. A person heads in… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Farts come from no one and nowhere; they are anonymous emanations that belong to the group as a whole, and even when… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
You have to protect it too, you can't let just any stupid person take it and do something demoralizing with it. At… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I wanted to do something different. Therefore, the first person I thought would have been too exclusionary. It would have said me,… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
When a person is lucky enough to live inside a story, to live inside an imaginary world, the pains of this world… — 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
“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
