All Paul Auster Quotes
- Paintings. Or the collapse of time in images. Collapse
- As my friend George Oppen once said to me about getting old: what a strange thing to happen to a little boy. Boy
- The real is always way ahead of what we can imagine. Ahead
- We are all aliens to ourselves, and if we have any sense of who we are, it is only because we live inside the eyes… Aliens
- Every man is the author of his own life. Author
- No one wants to be part of a fiction, and even less so if that fiction is real. Even Less
- As long as you are dreaming, there is always a way out Dream
- No one can cross the boundary into another -- for the simple reason that no one can gain access to himself Access
- What better portrait of a writer than to show a man who has been bewitched by books? Been
- Reason and memory are nearly always at odds. Inspirational
- Nobody asks you to do this. The world out there is not panting after another novelist. We choose it. Asks
- I think that's what turns young men and women into writers - the happiness you discover living in books. Book
- I don't think that you can be prescriptive about anything, I mean, life is too complicated. Maybe there are novels where the author has not… Author
- Even you, who’ve lived inside your body for 64 years, would apparently be unable to recognize your foot in an isolated photograph of that foot,… Aliens
- The most challenging project I've ever done, I think, is every single thing I've ever tried to do. It's never easy. Challenges
- While I was writing poems, I would often divert myself by reading detective novels, I liked them. And there was a period when I read… Absorbed
- All my novels are very much directly related to my inner life, even though I'm inventing characters, even though it's fiction, even though it's make-believe,… All
- I think human beings wouldn't be human without narrative fiction. Beings
- Every historical moment needs the stories to be told about it. Every Historical
- I'm not a man deeply interested in technology. It eludes me. I confess I don't even have a computer, I don't have a cell phone. Cell