Medical care for the entire country seems to me a basic right. If every other country in the West can do it,… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Take a report. It's dry, the sentences are clunky and unfelicitous, they're just conveying information. But it seems to me that if… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I've never been able to witness the birth of an idea. It seems as if one second, there's nothing particularly going on,… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
It's always a mystery to me, I have to confess. I've never been able to witness the birth of an idea. It… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
In my life, I've lived in very different kinds of places - very tiny rooms when I was young. And you do… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — 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
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
In my books, there are a lot of people stuck in rooms. Or, conversely, out in the wide open. It seems that,… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I use things, I steal things from my life when I want to, when I need to, or when it seems appropriate.… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I feel that the act of writing, in and of itself, is a tool towards probing that which you wouldn't without that… — 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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