Eighteen is a terrible age, and while I walked around with the conviction that I was somehow more grown-up than my classmates,… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
At that point, Noriko finally breaks down and begins to cry sobbing into her hands as the floodgates open - this young… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Even in New York, there are a lot of very attractive girls pedaling around. That just happens to be one of the… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I think that's what turns young men and women into writers - the happiness you discover living in books. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
In my life, I've lived in very different kinds of places - very tiny rooms when I was young. And you do… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Yes, she is in love with him, and yes, in spite of his qualms and inner hesitations, he loves her back, however… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
We grow older, but we do not change. We become more sophisticated, but at bottom we continue to resemble our young selves,… — 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 was always very curious as a young man about why older writers who I met seemed so indifferent to what was… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
When you're young, you keep reading new writers and you keep changing your mind about how you ought to sound. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I haven't done any translating for decades now. It's something I did when I was young. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Most of my friends' fathers had been in the war - either as soldiers or in some other capacity in the military.… — 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
“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
