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
“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
Even when I'm just sitting at my desk, I have to get up every twenty minutes or so and walk around, walk… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I've been asked several times over the years to become president, and I've always said no, because I didn't want to give… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“Ferguson closed his eyes, paused for a long moment, and then turned to her and said: The best thing about being fifteen… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
He knew that his wings could ignite at any moment, but the closer he came to touching the fire, the more he… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
He no longer wished to be dead. At the same time, it cannot be said that he was glad to be alive.… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
In the old physics, three times two equals six and two times three equals 6 are reversible propositions. Not in quantum physics.… — 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
For the first time in his life, he stopped worrying about results, and as a consequence the terms “success” and “failure” had… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“Everything had changed for me, and words that I had never understood before suddenly began to make sense. This came as revelation,… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
A book, at the same time, also has to do with what I call a buzz in the head. It's a certain… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“He realized that for Ponge there was no division between the work of writing and the work of seeing. For no word… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“Every time Sachs posed for a picture, he was forced to impersonate himself, to play the game of pretending to be who… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“Memory, therefore, not simply as the resurrection of one’s private past, but an immersion in the past of others, which is to… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“I was perfectly calm and perfectly insane, perfectly prepared to accept what the moment had offered. Indifference of that magnitude is rare… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Things have not changed as much as we would like to think they have. Or maybe we're just in another one of… — 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
“But the present is no less dark than the past, and its mystery is equal to anything the future might hold. Such… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“But suddenly, after all this time, I feel there is something to say, and if I don't quickly write it down, my… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
The childhood scenes [ in The Tree of Life] are tremendous. My favorite moment is when the mother levitate - for three… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
In my later novels, I systematically used the convention, and then a moment came - when did it come? With The Book… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“Nevertheless, this is where it begins. The first word appears only at a moment when nothing can be explained anymore, at some… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I had jumped off the edge, and then, at the very last moment, something reached out and caught me in midair. That… — 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
We exist for ourselves, perhaps, and at times we even have a glimmer of who we are, but in the end we… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“Les moments de crise produsent un redoublement de vie chez les hommes. Moments of crisis produce a redoubled vitality in men. Or,… — 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
“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
“No es que escribir me produzca un gran placer, pero es mucho peor si no lo hago.” — Paul Auster Copy Share
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
The joke is the purest, most essential form of storytelling. Every word has to count. — Paul Auster Copy Share
“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
I had made an empirical discovery and it carried all the weight of a mathematical proof. — Paul Auster Copy Share
As long as there's one person to believe it, there's no story that can't be true. — Paul Auster Copy Share
Writing has always had a tactile quality for me. It's a physical experience. — Paul Auster Copy Share
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
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
Our lifelong certainties about the world can be demolished in a single second. — Paul Auster Copy Share
The ideal reader's the same, and I suppose this person has never had a face or a gender or an age. It's just some… — Paul Auster Copy Share
“Most lives vanish. A person dies, and little by little all traces of that life disappear. An inventor survives in his inventions, an architect… — Paul Auster Copy Share
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