Novels are fictions and therefore they tell lies, but through those lies every novelist attempts to tell the truth about the world. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Betty died of a broken heart. Some people laugh when they hear that phrase, but that's because they don't know anything about… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Every novel is an equal collaboration between the writer and the reader and it is the only place in the world where… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Most people just want to be part of the world, they want to live, love, and enjoy themselves - to take part… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
If the world weren't such a beautiful place, we might all turn into cynics — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
In other words: It seems to me that I will always be happy in the place where I am not. Or, more… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
How can you think about the world without factoring in the unforseen, the fluke event? — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Libraries aren't in the real world, after all. They're places apart, sanctuaries of pure thought. In this way I can go on… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
There is a line from the Marina Tsvetaeva poem I'm so fond of: "In this most Christian of worlds/ All poets are… — 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
