After something crystallizes, I can write ferociously and write novels in six months, which in the past would have taken me two… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“Thoughts are real', he said. 'Words are real. Everything human is real, and sometimes we know things before they happen, even if… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I'm living in the present, thinking about the past, hoping for the future. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“Do you know what happened the last time a nation listened to a bush?" Honey asks. No one says a word. "Its… — 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
“He is twenty-eight years old, and to the best of his knowledge he has no ambitions. No burning ambitions, in any case,… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“He was there for you, and yet at the same time he was inaccessible. You felt there was a secret core in… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“It is also true that memory sometimes comes to him as a voice. It is a voice that speaks inside him, and… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“The big event that rips through the heart of things and changes life for everyone, the unforgettable moment when something ends and… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
In fact, writing, especially writing autobiographical works, and this is actually the fourth time I've done it, each time I've done it… — 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
Everyone reads a different book. That's what's interesting. Everyone sees a different film, as well. We bring our past lives to whatever… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“Your earliest thoughts, remnants of how you lived inside yourself as a small boy, You can remember only some of it, isolated… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“In his little speech to Alice, Humpty Dumpty sketches the future of human hopes and gives the clue to our salvation: to… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“...feelings were always feelings, subjectively true one hundred percent of the time...” — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“times i think u were the most cherished trophy i had, but sometimes i think i was the game that you played.” — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
As a poet or a novelist or a painter, you are pushing yourself all the time, always looking for a new way… — 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
