All Paul Auster Quotes
- Money's important. Everyone cares about money. And when you don't have money, money becomes the overriding obsession of your life. Becomes
- People who don't like my work say that the connections seem too arbitrary. But that's how life is. Arbitrary
- Some things get written more quickly than others, but I can't really measure degrees of difficulty. Degrees
- I'm generous. I give good tips. It's just - the way I live my life, ironically enough, is: I don't want anything. I'm not a… Consumer
- Movies are not novels, and that's why, when filmmakers try to adapt novels, particularly long or complex novels, the result is almost always failure. It… Adapt
- No book includes the entire world. It's limited. And so it doesn't seem like an aesthetic compromise to have to do that. There's so much… Aesthetic
- The book that convinced me I wanted to be a writer was 'Crime and Punishment'. I put the thing down after reading it in a… Book
- The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In some ways we… Chance
- Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story, when our mother or father… Ardently
- We grow older, but we do not change. We become more sophisticated, but at bottom we continue to resemble our young selves, eager to listen… Bottom
- What used to keep me up at night was the fact that I didn't know how I was going to pay the rent. Now that… Ache
- Every novel is an equal collaboration between the writer and the reader and it is the only place in the world where two strangers can… Absolute
- In the good mystery there is nothing wasted, no sentence, no word that is not significant. Good
- When I write, the story is always uppermost in my mind, and I feel that everything must be sacrificed to it. All elegant passages, all… All
- I've dealt with numbers all my life, of course, and after a while you begin to feel that each number has a personality of its… All
- Novels are fictions and therefore they tell lies, but through those lies every novelist attempts to tell the truth about the world. Attempts
- Our lives don't really belong to us, you see -- they belong to the world, and in spite of our efforts to make sense of… Belong
- Translators are the shadow heroes of literature, the often forgotten instruments that make it possible for different cultures to talk to one another, who have… All
- You find the book in the process of doing it. That's the adventure of the job. Adventure
- Becoming a writer is not a 'career decision' like becoming a doctor or a policeman. You don't choose it so much as get chosen, and… Accept