"In the good mystery there is nothing wasted,……" — Paul Auster

"In the good mystery there is nothing wasted, no sentence, no word that is not significant."

— Paul Auster

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173 Quotes by Paul Auster

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Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you…
The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself…
There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads.
We are continually shaped by the forces of coincidence.
Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop…
You can't put your feet on the ground until you've touched the sky.
We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People…
Even in New York, there are a lot of very attractive girls pedaling around. That just happens to be one…
Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to…
I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and…
I don't think of myself as a metafictional writer at all. I think of myself as a classic writer, a…
I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just…

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