“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
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
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
“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
This was the first time he had seriously confronted what he was doing, and the force of that awareness came very abruptly… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“These are treacherous times, and I know how easily perceptions can be twisted by a single word spoken into the wrong ear.… — 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
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
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
My children haven't read 'Winter Journal'. They have read some of my work, but I really don't foist it on them. I… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“It was one of the most sublimely exhilarating moments of my life. I was half a step in front of the real,… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“I felt the taste of mortality in my mouth, and at that moment I understood that I was not going to live… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“It was all a matter of missed connections, bad timing, blundering in the dark. We were always in the right place at… — 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
“...and while all people were bound together by the common space they shared, their journeys through time were all different, which meant… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“So weak, so little left, time running out. I will be robbed of my old age. I try not to feel bitter… — 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 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
“He has been marked by the past, and once that happens, nothing can be done about it. Something happens, Blue thinks, and… — 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
“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
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
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
“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
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
All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to… — 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
