I'm really trying to dredge up what one might call intellectual and moral material. For example, when do you realize that you… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
A canteen I remember vividly, and maybe one other thing, I can't remember. And I knew then that he had bought them… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
It's June second, he told himself. Try to remember that. This is New York, and tomorrow will be June third. If all… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Autobiographical writings, essays, interviews, various other things... All the non-fiction prose I wanted to keep, that was the idea behind this collected… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
It's a mind going over things, revisiting things, maybe trying to refine the original perception. You have to keep going a thing… — 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
The mental state I'm in is completely different, but the act of trying to write is the same. I mean, in all… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I've been trying to fit everything in, trying to get to the end before it's too late, but I see now how… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — 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
Chance is an element of life. What I try to do is study what I call the mechanics of reality as carefully… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I met Peter Brook, the theater director, who's been based in Paris for many years at the Bouffes du Nord. I admire… — 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
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
Movies are not novels, and that's why, when filmmakers try to adapt novels, particularly long or complex novels, the result is almost… — 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
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
Then, without any warning, we both straightened up, turned towards each other, and began to kiss. After that, it is difficult for… — 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
![“A canteen I remember vividly, and maybe one other thing, I can't remember. And I knew then that he had bought them in an army surplus store that day and he wanted to maybe enhance himself in my eyes, and say, "Well, yes, I have been in the army." Or [he] simply just didn't want to disappoint me. It…” quote by Paul Auster](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/af8/paul-auster-351_army_a-canteen-i-remember-vividly-and-maybe-o_237873.jpg)
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