When young people say I want to be a novelist, I'd say, think very carefully about it. There will be very few… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Most of the boys would come with bits of equipment that their fathers had given them from their war days - helmets,… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Each time he took a walk, he felt as though he were leaving himself behind, and by giving himself up to the… — 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
As long as a man had the courage to reject what society told him to do, he could live life on his… — 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
Generally, I don't want to do things. I feel lazy and unmotivated. It's only when an idea grabs hold of me and… — 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
You tend to feel very hurt when people attack you and feel indifferent when you get praise. You think, 'Of course they… — 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
Just the fact that Hilary Clinton won the popular vote by such a large number gives some validation to the impulse to… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I think there might be some pressure released while I'm doing autobiographical work, but afterwards everything remains the same. — 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
I think most writers can't really think about their work without a kind of revulsion. And I think that's probably why we… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
For example, when I was writing Leviathan, which was written both in New York and in Vermont - I think there were… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I'm living in the present, thinking about the past, hoping for the future. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Often it's true that films just go right through us. You see the film, you might be entertained, and if it's not… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I hate reading digital books. I don't enjoy the experience. I like smelling the paper, turning the pages. I think the book… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I think people are trying out ideas with the new technology and it's too early to say where it's going exactly. But… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Every generation always thinks it was better before, and I think people have been saying this for probably thousands of years. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
A here exists only in relation to a there, not the other way around. There's this only because there's that; if we… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I don't think that you can be prescriptive about anything, I mean, life is too complicated. Maybe there are novels where the… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I don't think of myself as a metafictional writer at all. I think of myself as a classic writer, a realist writer,… — 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
