Paul Auster

What matters is not how well you can avoid trouble, but how you cope with trouble when it comes.

— Paul Auster

“Everything had changed for me, and words that I had never understood before suddenly began to make sense. This came as revelation,…

— Paul Auster

Even when I'm just sitting at my desk, I have to get up every twenty minutes or so and walk around, walk…

— Paul Auster

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

— Paul Auster

“He has been marked by the past, and once that happens, nothing can be done about it. Something happens, Blue thinks, and…

— Paul Auster

“It was. It will never be again. Remember.”

— Paul Auster

It's June second, he told himself. Try to remember that. This is New York, and tomorrow will be June third. If all…

— Paul Auster

“Guilt kept me going. It was impossible not to blame myself for what had happened, but even guilt was a comfort. It…

— Paul Auster

“That was all he had ever aspired to, with a wife thrown into the bargain, maybe, and a kid or two to…

— Paul Auster

“I know you don't love me but that doesn't mean I'm the wrong girl for you.”

— Paul Auster

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

“To think one thought meant thinking the opposite thought, and no sooner did that second thought destroy the first thought than a…

— Paul Auster

Fiction creating reality.

— Paul Auster

My children haven't read 'Winter Journal'. They have read some of my work, but I really don't foist it on them. I…

— Paul Auster

When I'm writing, I don't feel neurotic. So it's better for the family if I'm working.

— Paul Auster

At that point, Noriko finally breaks down and begins to cry sobbing into her hands as the floodgates open - this young…

— Paul Auster

I think the act of talking about something - with a friend, or someone in your family, or someone you care about,…

— Paul Auster

Human beings need stories, and we're looking for them in all kinds of places; whether it's television, whether it's comic books or…

— Paul Auster

“Every time Sachs posed for a picture, he was forced to impersonate himself, to play the game of pretending to be who…

— Paul Auster

That's all I've ever dreamed of, Mr. Bones. To make the world a better place. To bring some beauty to the drab…

— Paul Auster

To leave the world a little better than you found it. That's the best a man can ever do.

— Paul Auster

“Con men and tricksters run the world. Rascals rule. And do you know why? because they are hungier than we are. because…

— Paul Auster

Most people are participating in the grand adventure of living with one another.

— Paul Auster

I really have no interest in myself.

— Paul Auster

“...cannot possibly know who you are, you imagine that she is suspicious of all young people-as a matter of principle- and therefore…

— Paul Auster