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

No one can ever amount to anything in this life without someone else to believe in him. That — 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

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

Expect the unexpected, they say, but once the unexpected happens, the last thing you expect is that it will happen again. — 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

You're too good for this world, and because of that the world will eventually crush you. — 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

What keeps me up at night? Anxiety. Anxiety, the inability to go to sleep, it's quite literally that. — 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

It was the best thing that could have happened to him, it was the worst thing that could have happened to him. — Paul Auster

Nobody asks you to do this. The world out there is not panting after another novelist. We choose it. — Paul Auster

I've made my nothing, and now I've got to live in it. — 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

The grinding search for money can crush the spirit out of you unless you're made of steel. — 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

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

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

We are continually shaped by the forces of coincidence. — Paul Auster

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

We find ourselves only by looking to what we're not. — Paul Auster

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

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