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 pictures do not lie, but neither do they tell the whole story. They are merely a record of time passing, the… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I think that sense of unreality inspired me to write the story within the book that [August] Brill tells himself, one of… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Having made films, I know very well that the scope of the average 90- to 120-minute movie is about the same narrative… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
The best filmmakers, I think, have always had very narrow frameworks for their stories, and then they can go deeply, rather than… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I don't think about the stories so much, as the characters themselves. They live on, and they are almost as real as… — 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
I see myself as anybody, as everybody; I'm not just telling the story of my life to give the reader a picture… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
But lost chances are as much a part of life as chances taken, and a story cannot dwell on what might have… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — 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
I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn't think I could do… — 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
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
Stories happen only to those who are able to tell them, someone once said. In the same way, perhaps, experiences present themselves… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
There's a difference between doing memoir and writing a novel. If I had put the story of the boy killing my dog… — 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
No one was to blame for what happened, but that does not make it any less difficult to accept. It was all… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
When I think of Tokyo Story, yeah, it is like a novella. That doesn't mean it's not great. Some of my favorite… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Stories without endings can do nothing but go on forever, and to be caught in one means that you must die before… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
What I'm trying to do [in Winter Journal] is to tell the story of a man's life from birth, but there are… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Human beings need stories, and we're looking for them in all kinds of places; whether it's television, whether it's comic books or… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
We grow older, but we do not change. We become more sophisticated, but at bottom we continue to resemble our young selves,… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Money is the driving force of Hand to Mouth, the lack of money, and all those true stories about strange things in… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I have to say in premise 'Winter Journal' is really not a memoir. And I don't even think of it as an… — 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
![“I think that sense of unreality inspired me to write the story within the book that [August] Brill tells himself, one of the stories he tells himself.” quote by Paul Auster](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/fc6/paul-auster-351_august_i-think-that-sense-of-unreality-inspired_3009692.jpg)
![“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)
![“What I'm trying to do [in Winter Journal] is to tell the story of a man's life from birth, but there are different versions of him, four different versions.” quote by Paul Auster](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/6f0/paul-auster-351_birth_what-i-m-trying-to-do-in-winter-journal_2843557.jpg)
