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
Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I've found that writing novels is an all-absorbing experience - both physical and mental - and I have to do it every… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I am very scared at the beginning of each book, because I've never written it before. I feel I have to teach… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I hate reading digital books. I don't enjoy the experience. I like smelling the paper, turning the pages. I think the book… — 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
I would say that Edgar Allan Poe, [Georges] Perec, Thomas Pynchon, and [Jorge Luis] Borges are all boy-writers. These are writers who… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
For one reason or another, I became a passionate reader when I was very little. As soon as I could read, I… — 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
While I was writing poems, I would often divert myself by reading detective novels, I liked them. And there was a period… — 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
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
I'm not a boy-writer, I've never been. I wanted to be a boy-writer when I was young, and I think that held… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I use things, I steal things from my life when I want to, when I need to, or when it seems appropriate.… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I feel that the act of writing, in and of itself, is a tool towards probing that which you wouldn't without that… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
To care about words, to have a stake in what is written, to believe in the power of books - this overwhelms… — 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,… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I think there might be some pressure released while I'm doing autobiographical work, but afterwards everything remains the same. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“I learned that books are never finished, that it is possible for stories to go on writing themselves without an author.” — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I thought, "Well, I'm writing about early childhood, so maybe it would make sense to write about late childhood as well, early… — 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
There's a difference between doing memoir and writing a novel. If I had put the story of the boy killing my dog… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“So it goes as I work my way down the page, and each cluster of marks is a word, and each word… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Reading, at the deepest level, is a physical experience. Most people are not attuned to this, most people don't learn how to… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Don't be a writer, it's a terrible way to live your life, there's nothing to be gained from it but poverty and… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Becoming a writer is not a 'career decision' like becoming a doctor or a policeman. You don't choose it so much as… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
With a computer, you make your changes on the screen and then you print out a clean copy. With a typewriter, you… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
The book that convinced me I wanted to be a writer was 'Crime and Punishment'. I put the thing down after reading… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I really, truly believe that writing comes out of the body; of course, the mind is working as well, but it's a… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
When young people say I want to be a novelist, I'd say, think very carefully about it. There will be very few… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I don't even own a computer. I write by hand then I type it up on an old manual typewriter. But I… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
When you pick up a book, everyone knows it's imaginary. You don't have to pretend it's not a book. We don't have… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Writing is such a strange, utterly mysterious process. First, there was nothing; then, suddenly, there was something. I don't know where thoughts… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I guess of all those novels, Don DeLillo's Falling Man is the one I like the best. I thought there were some… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Every book is an image of solitude. It is a tangible object that one can pick up, put down, open, and close,… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Don't be a writer; it's a terrible way to live your life. There's nothing to be gained from it but poverty and… — 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 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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