I think all writers are a bit crazy; Damaged souls, incapable of doing anything else. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Some things get written more quickly than others, but I can't really measure degrees of difficulty. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
You find the book in the process of doing it. That's the adventure of the job. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
All through my writing life, I've had this impulse to write autobiographical works. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
When I'm writing, I don't feel neurotic. So it's better for the family if I'm working. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
The fiction is not autobiographical. Maybe to some extent it is, of course. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
[Lev] Tolstoy is not a boy-writer. He's a grown-up. And [Fedor] Doestoeivski is not a boy-writer. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Nobody asks you to do this. The world out there is not panting after another novelist. We choose it. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I've always written by hand. Mostly with a fountain pen, but sometimes with a pencil - especially for corrections. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I do not repeat conversations that I can't remember. And it's something that irritates me a great deal, because I think most… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I don't know why I write. If I knew the answer, I probably wouldn't have to. But it is a compulsion. You… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I've written books that have taken me fifteen years, from first sentence to last, and some that only take three or four… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Writing is, after all, a gesture towards other people, giving something to others. And so it's not a completely hermetic exercise. It's… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I wrote Report from the Interior was that after I finished Winter Journal, I took a pause, and I realized there was… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Each book I've done somehow finds its own unique form, a specific way it has to be written, and once I find… — 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
Memoirs have dominated the literary scene now for ten or 20 or even 30 years: most of them seem to use the… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“[T]he only luxury he allows himself is buying books, paperback books, mostly novels, American novels, British novels, foreign novels in translation, but… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
If I could write directly on a typewriter or a computer, I would do it. But keyboards have always intimidated me. I've… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I sometimes feel that my goal as a novelist would be to write a novel in which the language was so transparent… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I have to say in premise 'Winter Journal' is really not a memoir. And I don't even think of it as an… — 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
Once you finish a book, it doesn't belong to you anymore. You're giving it to other people. If something in what a… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“Each book is a new book. I’ve never written it before and I have to teach myself how to write it as… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Surely it is an odd way to spend your life - sitting alone in a room with a pen in your hand,… — 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
I never feel I'm standing on solid ground, and I do write with a certain kind of trembling fear. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
No one wants to be part of a fiction, and even less so if that fiction is real. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“knowing now that the job of writing was as much about removing words as adding them,” — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“Books force you to give something back to them, to exercise your intelligence and imagination.” — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
When I am writing, even though it's hard and I do struggle often, I am happier than when I'm not writing. I… — 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
I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn't think I could do… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Writing is a solitary business. It takes over your life. In some sense, a writer has no life of his own. Even… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“For me, books were not the containers of words so much as the words themselves, and the value of a given book… — 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
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