All Paul Auster Quotes
- I think people are trying out ideas with the new technology and it's too early to say where it's going exactly. But again, whether it's… All
- I guess the important thing for young writers is to read. Guess
- Don't be a writer, it's a terrible way to live your life, there's nothing to be gained from it but poverty and obscurity and solitude.… Ahead
- Each time he took a walk, he felt as though he were leaving himself behind, and by giving himself up to the movement of the… Able
- All men contain several men inside them, and most of us bounce from one self to another without ever knowing who we are. All
- Existence was bigger than just life. It was everyone's life all together, and even if you lived in Buffalo, New York and had never been… All
- When a person is lucky enough to live inside a story, to live inside an imaginary world, the pains of this world disappear. For as… Disappear
- And that's why books are never going to die. It's impossible. It's the only time we really go into the mind of a stranger, and… Belong
- I had jumped off the edge, and then, at the very last moment, something reached out and caught me in midair. That something is what… Caught
- Something happens, Blue thinks, and then it goes on happening forever. It can never be changed, can never be otherwise. Blue
- Every life is inexplicable, I kept telling myself. No matter how many facts are told, no matter how many details are given, the essential thing… Battle
- Stories only happen to those who are able to tell them. Able
- The pen will never be able to move fast enough to write down every word discovered in the space of memory. Some things have been… Able
- He no longer wished to be dead. At the same time, it cannot be said that he was glad to be alive. But at least… Alive
- It seems to me that I will always be happy in the place where I am not. Funny
- Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that… Beautiful
- To feel estranged from language is to lose your own body. Body
- In the end, the art of hunger can be described as an existential art. It is a way of looking death in the face, and… Abrupt
- One should never underestimate the power of books. Book
- It always stimulates me to discover new examples of my own prejudice and stupidity, to realize that I don't know half as much as I… Discover