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For me, a paragraph in a novel is a bit like a line in a poem. It has its own shape, its own music, its own integrity.
— Paul Auster
Let me tell you, there's no better medicine than a friendly card game for sloughing off the cares of a workaday world.
— Paul Auster
No one can ever amount to anything in this life without someone else to believe in him. That
— Paul Auster
The story is not in the words; it's in the struggle.
— Paul Auster
The most challenging project I've ever done, I think, is every single thing I've ever tried to do. It's never easy.
— Paul Auster
To leave the world a little better than you found it. That's the best a man can ever do.
— Paul Auster
When I'm writing, I don't feel neurotic. So it's better for the family if I'm working.
— Paul Auster
As long as you're dreaming, there's always a way out.
— Paul Auster
I learned that books are never finished, that it is possible for stories to go on writing themselves without an author.
— Paul Auster
It's beyond the grasp of anyone's memory to recall conversations in kind of [memoir] detail. So it's fake. It's all made up.
— Paul Auster
I believe that every artist, in one way or another, is a wounded person. It's not natural to make art.
— Paul Auster
Reason and memory are nearly always at odds.
— Paul Auster
If you look into someone's face long enough, eventually you're going to feel that you're looking at yourself.
— Paul Auster
As my friend George Oppen once said to me about getting old: what a strange thing to happen to a little boy.
— Paul Auster
Expect the unexpected, they say, but once the unexpected happens, the last thing you expect is that it will happen again.
— Paul Auster
The things we remember are often things that have great emotional importance, and so they have a lasting effect.
— Paul Auster
There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads.
— Paul Auster
The tone of every book is slightly different; there's a music that each has that is distinct from all the others.
— Paul Auster
I never would have thought of that word, "hospitality." I settle into the rhythm of my steps.
— Paul Auster
In Invisible there's a lot about childhood, the death of the brother and then the relationship between the brother and sister.
— Paul Auster
I think that's what turns young men and women into writers - the happiness you discover living in books.
— Paul Auster
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[Lev] Tolstoy is not a boy-writer. He's a grown-up. And [Fedor] Doestoeivski is not a boy-writer.
— Paul Auster
Chance is an element of life. What I try to do is study what I call the mechanics of reality as carefully as I can.
— Paul Auster
I walk around the world like a ghost, and sometimes I questionwhether I even exist. Whether I've ever existed at all. — Paul Auster
Once the government becomes the supplier of people's needs,there is no limit to the needs that will be claimed as a basic right. — Lawrence Auster
We find ourselves only by looking to what we're not.
— Paul Auster
I haven't done any translating for decades now. It's something I did when I was young.
— Paul Auster
I think I hate cynicism more than anything else. It's the curse of our age, and I want to avoid it at all costs.
— Paul Auster
Let's face it. Leftism is the political form of evil. And the left largely controls the modern West. Where, then, does that leave us all?
— Lawrence Auster
You had to invent something. It's not possible to leave it blank. The mindwon't let you. — Paul Auster
People who don't like my work say that the connections seem too arbitrary. But that's how life is.
— Paul Auster
He wondered why he turned so sentimental. That's what happened when you have no one to talk to. — Paul Auster
When a man feels he has come to the end of his rope, it is perfectly natural that he should want to scream.
— Paul Auster
You can't punish someone for a lack of affection, can you? You can't force a child to love you just because he's your child.
— Paul Auster
It's like a mathematical law, Grace.
— Paul Auster
Nobody asks you to do this. The world out there is not panting after another novelist. We choose it.
— Paul Auster
If you do not consider the man before you to be human, there are few restraints of conscience on your behavior towards him.
— Paul Auster
Rather than punch the girl in the face, he abruptly stood up from his seat and walked away.
— Paul Auster
I see myself as anybody, as everybody; I'm not just telling the story of my life to give the reader a picture of who I am.
— Paul Auster
We are continually shaped by the forces of coincidence.
— Paul Auster
The grinding search for money can crush the spirit out of you unless you're made of steel.
— Paul Auster
All men contain several men inside them, and most of us bounce from one self to another without ever knowing who we are.
— Paul Auster
I've made my nothing, and now I've got to live in it.
— Paul Auster
It was. It will never be again. Remember.
— Paul Auster
It was the best thing that could have happened to him, it was the worst thing that could have happened to him.
— Paul Auster
What keeps me up at night? Anxiety. Anxiety, the inability to go to sleep, it's quite literally that.
— Paul Auster
You're too good for this world, and because of that the world will eventually crush you.
— Paul Auster
Paintings. Or the collapse of time in images.
— Paul Auster
For one reason or another, I became a passionate reader when I was very little. As soon as I could read, I wanted to read.
— Paul Auster
I don't think about the stories so much, as the characters themselves. They live on, and they are almost as real as I am.
— Paul Auster
The funny thing is that I feel close to all my characters. Deep, deep inside them all.
— Paul Auster
As says who is deeply involved with neuroscience, emotion consolidates memory, and I think that's true.
— Paul Auster
I like the sound a typewriter makes.
— Paul Auster
Once a man begins to recognize himself in another, he can no longer look on that person as a stranger.
— Paul Auster
In the end, each life is irreducible to anything other than itself. Which is as much as to say: lives make no sense.
— Paul Auster
Times i think u were the most cherished trophy i had, but sometimes i think i was the game that you played.
— Paul Auster
You can survive only if nothing is necessary to you
— Paul Auster
But even the facts do not always tell the truth
— Paul Auster
Anything for the truth. No sacrifice is too great.
— Paul Auster
