A canteen I remember vividly, and maybe one other thing, I can't remember. And I knew then that he had bought them… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
It's June second, he told himself. Try to remember that. This is New York, and tomorrow will be June third. If all… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
It's an ethical pact I've made with myself and with the reader - not to invent. And when I can't remember, I… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Memoirs have dominated the literary scene now for ten or 20 or even 30 years: most of them seem to use the… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
The things we remember are often things that have great emotional importance, and so they have a lasting effect. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I remember I thought I should become a doctor, even though I had no talent for science whatsoever. Then of course, until… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I can remember saying again and again and again, "A terrible thing has happened, but this should be a kind of wake-up… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
and now we get to the hard part. the endings, the farewells, and the famous last words. if you don't hear from… — 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
I do not repeat conversations that I can't remember. And it's something that irritates me a great deal, because I think most… — 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
![“A canteen I remember vividly, and maybe one other thing, I can't remember. And I knew then that he had bought them in an army surplus store that day and he wanted to maybe enhance himself in my eyes, and say, "Well, yes, I have been in the army." Or [he] simply just didn't want to disappoint me. It…” quote by Paul Auster](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/af8/paul-auster-351_army_a-canteen-i-remember-vividly-and-maybe-o_237873.jpg)
