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And that's finally all anyone wants out of a book- to be amused — Paul Auster

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

One very big album, bound in expensive leather with a gold-stamped title on the cover - This is our life: The Austers - was totally blank inside. — 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

She's too sad to be beautiful. No one that sad can still be beautiful. — 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

What will happen when there are no more pages in the red notebook? — Paul Auster

Money, of course, is never just money. It's always something else, and it's always something more, and it always has the last word. — Paul Auster

As long as you're dreaming, there's always a way out. — Paul Auster

When I think of Tokyo Story, yeah, it is like a novella. That doesn't mean it's not great. Some of my favorite Tolstoy works are his novellas. — 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 do not repeat conversations that I can't remember. And it's something that irritates me a great deal, because I think most memoirs are false novels. — 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

There's hope for everyone. That's what makes the world go round. — Paul Auster

If people never learned the truth about him, then they couldn't turn around and use it against him. The lie was a way of buying protection. — Paul Auster

He was not trying to buy happiness, but simply an absence of unhappiness. — Paul Auster

Changing your mind is probably one of the most beautiful things people can do. And I've changed my mind about a lot of things over the years. — 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

All children are love children, he said, but only the best ones are ever called that. — 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

Life is deeply tragic and also very comic at the same time. It's everything at once. — Paul Auster

Pity is such an awful, useless emotion- you have to bottle it up and keep it to yourself.The moment you try to express it, it only makes things worse. — 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

Books demand more. You have to be a more active participant. — Paul Auster

I never would have thought of that word, "hospitality." I settle into the rhythm of my steps. — Paul Auster

My characters, I find them as I'm writing. It's quite incredible how fully realized they are in my mind, how many details I know about each of them. — 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

You tend to feel very hurt when people attack you and feel indifferent when you get praise. You think, 'Of course they like it. They should like it.' — Paul Auster

[Lev] Tolstoy is not a boy-writer. He's a grown-up. And [Fedor] Doestoeivski is not a boy-writer. — Paul Auster

You find the book in the process of doing it. That's the adventure of the job. — Paul Auster

Writing is a solitary business. It takes over your life. In some sense, a writer has no life of his own. Even when he's there, he's not really there. — Paul Auster

There's progress for you. A bigger and better mousetrap every month. Pretty soon, we'll all be able to kill all the mice at the same time. — Paul Auster

Novels are fictions and therefore they tell lies, but through those lies every novelist attempts to tell the truth about the world. — 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 question
whether 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

Poets are everywhere now, but they talk only to each other — 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

There are two kinds of typical days. There's the typical day when I'm writing a novel, and there's the typical day when I'm not. — 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 mind
won't let you. — Paul Auster

The sun is the past, the earth is the present, the moon is the future. — Paul Auster

But that was the beauty of this particular game. The moment you lost, you won. — Paul Auster

Writing has always had that tactile quality for me. It's a physical experience. — Paul Auster

People who don't like my work say that the connections seem too arbitrary. But that's how life is. — Paul Auster

Money's important. Everyone cares about money. And when you don't have money, money becomes the overriding obsession of your life. — 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

As long as there's one person to believe it, there's no story that can't be true. — 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

I think there might be some pressure released while I'm doing autobiographical work, but afterwards everything remains the same. — Paul Auster

After something crystallizes, I can write ferociously and write novels in six months, which in the past would have taken me two years. — 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

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 think I do. — 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

If you're not ready for everything, you're not ready for anything. — 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

I think it's a very good thing to leave your country and look at it from afar. — Paul Auster

Brooklyn has a bit of everything - some of the most beautiful things in America, and some of the most wretched, ugly, impoverished things. — 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

For no word can be written without first having been seen — 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

Every historical moment needs the stories to be told about it. — 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

All through my writing life, I've had this impulse to write autobiographical works. — Paul Auster

It became a habit of mine never to leave the house without a pencil in my pocket. — Paul Auster

We hear things, but we can't always see them, or, even if we do see them, we're not sure that we're seeing correctly. Hence: Invisible. — 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

an exercise in the art of paying attention, and paying attention, Ferguson discovered, was the first step in learning how to be alive. — Paul Auster

My mind was a blithering gush, a pandemonium of rhapsodic thoughts. — Paul Auster