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title: "78 Writer Quotes By Paul Auster"
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> [I like the sound a typewriter makes.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-auster/i-like-the-sound-a-typewriter-makes/)

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> [Fiction creating reality.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-auster/fiction-creating-reality/)

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> [I never feel I'm standing on solid ground, and I do write with a certain kind of trembling fear.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-auster/i-never-feel-i-m-standing-on-solid-ground-and-i-do-write-with-a/)

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> [“knowing now that the job of writing was as much about removing words as adding them,”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-auster/knowing-now-that-the-job-of-writing-was-as-much-about-removing-words/)

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> [No one wants to be part of a fiction, and even less so if that fiction is real.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-auster/no-one-wants-to-be-part-of-a-fiction-and-even-less-so-if-that-fiction/)

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> [“Books force you to give something back to them, to exercise your intelligence and imagination.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-auster/books-force-you-to-give-something-back-to-them-to-exercise-your/)

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> [Books demand more. You have to be a more active participant.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-auster/books-demand-more-you-have-to-be-a-more-active-participant/)

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> [You have to really have a taste for being alone to be a writer.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-auster/you-have-to-really-have-a-taste-for-being-alone-to-be-a-writer/)

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> [All through my writing life, I've had this impulse to write autobiographical works.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-auster/all-through-my-writing-life-i-ve-had-this-impulse-to-write/)

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> [When I'm writing, I don't feel neurotic. So it's better for the family if I'm working.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-auster/when-i-m-writing-i-don-t-feel-neurotic-so-it-s-better-for-the-family/)

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> [ I would say that Edgar Allan Poe, \[Georges\] Perec, Thomas Pynchon, and \[Jorge Luis\] Borges are all boy-writers. These are writers who… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-auster/i-would-say-that-edgar-allan-poe-georges-perec-thomas-pynchon-and/)

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> [Libraries aren't in the real world, after all. They're places apart, sanctuaries of pure thought. In this way I can go on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-auster/libraries-aren-t-in-the-real-world-after-all-they-re-places-apart/)

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> [I've found that writing novels is an all-absorbing experience - both physical and mental - and I have to do it every…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-auster/i-ve-found-that-writing-novels-is-an-all-absorbing-experience-both/)

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> [I am very scared at the beginning of each book, because I've never written it before. I feel I have to teach…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-auster/i-am-very-scared-at-the-beginning-of-each-book-because-i-ve-never/)

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> [I hate reading digital books. I don't enjoy the experience. I like smelling the paper, turning the pages. I think the book…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-auster/i-hate-reading-digital-books-i-don-t-enjoy-the-experience-i-like/)

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> [“I learned that books are never finished, that it is possible for stories to go on writing themselves without an author.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-auster/i-learned-that-books-are-never-finished-that-it-is-possible-for/)

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> [I think there might be some pressure released while I'm doing autobiographical work, but afterwards everything remains the same.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-auster/i-think-there-might-be-some-pressure-released-while-i-m-doing/)

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> [For one reason or another, I became a passionate reader when I was very little. As soon as I could read, I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-auster/for-one-reason-or-another-i-became-a-passionate-reader-when-i-was/)

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> [Writing is such a strange, utterly mysterious process. First, there was nothing; then, suddenly, there was something. I don't know where thoughts…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-auster/writing-is-such-a-strange-utterly-mysterious-process-first-there-was/)

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> [I guess of all those novels, Don DeLillo's Falling Man is the one I like the best. I thought there were some…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-auster/i-guess-of-all-those-novels-don-delillo-s-falling-man-is-the-one-i/)

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> [I don't even own a computer. I write by hand then I type it up on an old manual typewriter. But I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-auster/i-don-t-even-own-a-computer-i-write-by-hand-then-i-type-it-up-on-an/)

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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-auster/when-you-pick-up-a-book-everyone-knows-it-s-imaginary-you-don-t-have/)

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> [When young people say I want to be a novelist, I'd say, think very carefully about it. There will be very few…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-auster/when-young-people-say-i-want-to-be-a-novelist-i-d-say-think-very/)

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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-auster/don-t-be-a-writer-it-s-a-terrible-way-to-live-your-life-there-s/)

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> [All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-auster/all-i-wanted-to-do-was-write-at-the-time-poems-and-prose-too-i-guess/)

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> [Every book is an image of solitude. It is a tangible object that one can pick up, put down, open, and close,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-auster/every-book-is-an-image-of-solitude-it-is-a-tangible-object-that-one/)

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> [Surely it is an odd way to spend your life - sitting alone in a room with a pen in your hand,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-auster/surely-it-is-an-odd-way-to-spend-your-life-sitting-alone-in-a-room/)

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> [Autobiographical writings, essays, interviews, various other things... All the non-fiction prose I wanted to keep, that was the idea behind this collected…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-auster/autobiographical-writings-essays-interviews-various-other-things-all/)

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> [“Each book is a new book. I’ve never written it before and I have to teach myself how to write it as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-auster/each-book-is-a-new-book-i-ve-never-written-it-before-and-i-have-to/)

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> [The fiction is not autobiographical. Maybe to some extent it is, of course.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-auster/the-fiction-is-not-autobiographical-maybe-to-some-extent-it-is-of/)

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> [ \[Lev\] Tolstoy is not a boy-writer. He's a grown-up. And \[Fedor\] Doestoeivski is not a boy-writer. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-auster/lev-tolstoy-is-not-a-boy-writer-he-s-a-grown-up-and-fedor/)

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> [You find the book in the process of doing it. That's the adventure of the job.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-auster/you-find-the-book-in-the-process-of-doing-it-that-s-the-adventure-of/)

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> [I think all writers are a bit crazy; Damaged souls, incapable of doing anything else.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-auster/i-think-all-writers-are-a-bit-crazy-damaged-souls-incapable-of-doing/)

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> [Some things get written more quickly than others, but I can't really measure degrees of difficulty.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-auster/some-things-get-written-more-quickly-than-others-but-i-can-t-really/)

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> [To care about words, to have a stake in what is written, to believe in the power of books - this overwhelms…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-auster/to-care-about-words-to-have-a-stake-in-what-is-written-to-believe-in/)

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> [You see, the interesting thing about books, as opposed, say, to films, is that it's always just one person encountering the book,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-auster/you-see-the-interesting-thing-about-books-as-opposed-say-to-films-is/)

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> [“For me, books were not the containers of words so much as the words themselves, and the value of a given book…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-auster/for-me-books-were-not-the-containers-of-words-so-much-as-the-words/)

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> [Writing is a solitary business. It takes over your life. In some sense, a writer has no life of his own. Even…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-auster/writing-is-a-solitary-business-it-takes-over-your-life-in-some-sense/)

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> [I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn't think I could do…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-auster/i-knew-from-the-age-of-16-that-i-wanted-to-be-a-writer-because-i-just/)

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> [I think most writers can't really think about their work without a kind of revulsion. And I think that's probably why we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-auster/i-think-most-writers-can-t-really-think-about-their-work-without-a/)

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> [“On his best walks, he was able to feel that he was nowhere. And this, finally, was all he ever asked of things: to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-auster/on-his-best-walks-he-was-able-to-feel-that-he-was-nowhere-and-this/)

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> [“No es que escribir me produzca un gran placer, pero es mucho peor si no lo hago.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-auster/no-es-que-escribir-me-produzca-un-gran-placer-pero-es-mucho-peor-si/)

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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-auster/you-see-the-interesting-thing-about-books-as-opposed-say-to-films-is/)

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> [I'm not a man deeply interested in technology. It eludes me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-auster/i-m-not-a-man-deeply-interested-in-technology-it-eludes-me/)

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> [The joke is the purest, most essential form of storytelling. Every word has to count.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-auster/the-joke-is-the-purest-most-essential-form-of-storytelling-every-word/)

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> [“What people saw when he appeared before them, then, was not really him, but a person he had invented, an artificial creature he could…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-auster/what-people-saw-when-he-appeared-before-them-then-was-not-really-him/)

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> [I had made an empirical discovery and it carried all the weight of a mathematical proof.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-auster/i-had-made-an-empirical-discovery-and-it-carried-all-the-weight-of-a/)

[Paul Auster](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-auster/)

> [As long as there's one person to believe it, there's no story that can't be true.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-auster/as-long-as-there-s-one-person-to-believe-it-there-s-no-story-that-can/)

[Paul Auster](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-auster/)

> [Writing has always had a tactile quality for me. It's a physical experience.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-auster/writing-has-always-had-a-tactile-quality-for-me-it-s-a-physical/)

[Paul Auster](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-auster/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-auster/people-look-at-the-same-passage-and-one-person-will-say-this-is-the/)

[Paul Auster](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-auster/)

> [I was very moved to see that the name of the boat was Hamlet - an imaginary character becomes so important to people, we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-auster/i-was-very-moved-to-see-that-the-name-of-the-boat-was-hamlet-an/)

[Paul Auster](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-auster/)

> [Our lifelong certainties about the world can be demolished in a single second.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-auster/our-lifelong-certainties-about-the-world-can-be-demolished-in-a/)

[Paul Auster](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-auster/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-auster/the-ideal-reader-s-the-same-and-i-suppose-this-person-has-never-had-a/)

[Paul Auster](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-auster/)

> [“Most lives vanish. A person dies, and little by little all traces of that life disappear. An inventor survives in his inventions, an architect…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-auster/most-lives-vanish-a-person-dies-and-little-by-little-all-traces-of/)

[Paul Auster](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-auster/)

> [“and cut down many trees. When the Humans”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-auster/and-cut-down-many-trees-when-the-humans/)

[Paul Auster](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-auster/)

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