“You had to invent something. It's not possible to leave it blank. The mind won't let you.” — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
When you're young, you keep reading new writers and you keep changing your mind about how you ought to sound. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Changing your mind is probably one of the most beautiful things people can do. And I've changed my mind about a lot… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
My characters, I find them as I'm writing. It's quite incredible how fully realized they are in my mind, how many details… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
It's a mind going over things, revisiting things, maybe trying to refine the original perception. You have to keep going a thing… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“...he wound up misbehaving in a manner so bold and outlandishly inappropriate that it wasn't clear to him if he had lost… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“That work was what appealed to him most about their conversations. Tom liked having to think fast, and he found it invigorating… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I really, truly believe that writing comes out of the body; of course, the mind is working as well, but it's a… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“Without him, we are nothing, but the paradox is that we, the figments of another mind, will outlive the mind that made… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
When I write, the story is always uppermost in my mind, and I feel that everything must be sacrificed to it. All… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“The world was full of holes, tiny apertures of meaninglessness, microscopic rifts that the mind could walk through, and once you were… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
And that's why books are never going to die. It's impossible. It's the only time we really go into the mind of… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
When I start, I have a feeling for the characters, and maybe the shape of the story. Sometimes I might even have… — 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
“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
