Paul Auster

“On his best walks, he was able to feel that he was nowhere. And this, finally, was all he ever asked of…

— Paul Auster

“No es que escribir me produzca un gran placer, pero es mucho peor si no lo hago.”

— Paul Auster

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

I'm not a man deeply interested in technology. It eludes me.

— Paul Auster

The joke is the purest, most essential form of storytelling. Every word has to count.

— Paul Auster

“What people saw when he appeared before them, then, was not really him, but a person he had invented, an artificial creature…

— Paul Auster

I had made an empirical discovery and it carried all the weight of a mathematical proof.

— Paul Auster

As long as there's one person to believe it, there's no story that can't be true.

— Paul Auster

Writing has always had a tactile quality for me. It's a physical experience.

— 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…

— Paul Auster

I was very moved to see that the name of the boat was Hamlet - an imaginary character becomes so important to…

— Paul Auster

Our lifelong certainties about the world can be demolished in a single second.

— 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…

— Paul Auster

“Most lives vanish. A person dies, and little by little all traces of that life disappear. An inventor survives in his inventions,…

— Paul Auster

“and cut down many trees. When the Humans”

— Paul Auster

“He who lives for an encounter with the unseen becomes the instrument of the seen.”

— Paul Auster

Something happens, Blue thinks, and then it goes on happening forever. It can never be changed, can never be otherwise.

— Paul Auster

I say at the very end of "Winter Journal" that I do dream about my father often. I think I have a…

— Paul Auster

One should never underestimate the power of books.

— Paul Auster

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

I see myself as anybody, as everybody; I'm not just telling the story of my life to give the reader a picture…

— Paul Auster

I'm really trying to dredge up what one might call intellectual and moral material. For example, when do you realize that you…

— Paul Auster

“But suddenly, after all this time, I feel there is something to say, and if I don't quickly write it down, my…

— Paul Auster

Medical care for the entire country seems to me a basic right. If every other country in the West can do it,…

— Paul Auster

“In the narrative of his third voyage Columbus wrote: "For I believe that the earthly Paradise lies here, which no one can…

— Paul Auster