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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

Every generation always thinks it was better before, and I think people have been saying this for probably thousands of years. — Paul Auster

The world is governed by chance. Randomness stalks us every day of our lives. — 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

How can you think about the world without factoring in the unforseen, the fluke event? — Paul Auster

The joke is the purest, most essential form of storytelling. Every word has to count. — Paul Auster

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

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

To leave the world a little better than you found it. That's the best a man can ever do. — Paul Auster

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

For some reason, all my characters come to me with their names attached to them. I never have to search for the names. — Paul Auster

But lost chances are as much a part of life as chances taken, and a story cannot dwell on what might have been. — Paul Auster

She'd seen the spark in his fledgling soul, and no one can ever amount to anything in this life without someone else to believe in him. — 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

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

Reason and memory are nearly always at odds. — Paul Auster

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

The Adlers were diminishing. They had begun to look like one of those families in which no one got to be very old. — Paul Auster

We are all aliens to ourselves. — 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

I project myself so deeply into the characters in novels that I'm not thinking about my own life. — Paul Auster

You can't put your feet on the ground until you've touched the sky. — Paul Auster

The pictures do not lie, but neither do they tell the whole story. They are merely a record of time passing, the outward evidence. — 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

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

As long as you are dreaming, there is always a way out — Paul Auster

I'm living in the present, thinking about the past, hoping for the future. — Paul Auster

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

Translators are the shadow heroes of literature. — Paul Auster

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

He who lives for an encounter with the unseen becomes the instrument of the seen. — 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

Would it not be better to learn the truth once and for all instead of living in a state of perpetual uncertainty? — Paul Auster

The fiction is not autobiographical. Maybe to some extent it is, of course. — Paul Auster

Stories without endings can do nothing but go on forever, and to be caught in one means that you must die before your part in it is played out. — Paul Auster

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

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

I've always written by hand. Mostly with a fountain pen, but sometimes with a pencil - especially for corrections. — Paul Auster

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

Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see where they are going to lead. — Paul Auster

Paintings. Or the collapse of time in images. — Paul Auster

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

In certain waya it was easy for others to take advantage of him. He refused to complain about anything. — Paul Auster

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

We are continually shaped by the forces of coincidence. — 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

[Charles] Reznikoff was in between faiths, in between worlds ... a double, hyphenated American. I think it probably goes deeper than that. — Paul Auster

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

I think that's what turns young men and women into writers - the happiness you discover living in books. — Paul Auster

Intellectuals suck, Nathan. They are the most boring people in the world. — Paul Auster

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

The kind of fiction I'm trying to write is about telling the truth. — Paul Auster

All the happiness of man stems from one thing only: that he is incapable of staying quietly in his room. — Paul Auster

the closest man can come to the feeling of eternity is by living in the present — Paul Auster

Our lifelong certainties about the world can be demolished in a single second. — 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

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

It was. It will never be again. Remember. — Paul Auster

Rather than punch the girl in the face, he abruptly stood up from his seat and walked away. — 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

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

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

Anything for the truth. No sacrifice is too great. — Paul Auster

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

But even the facts do not always tell the truth — Paul Auster

You can survive only if nothing is necessary to you — 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Once a man begins to recognize himself in another, he can no longer look on that person as a stranger. — Paul Auster

I like the sound a typewriter makes. — Paul Auster

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

As says who is deeply involved with neuroscience, emotion consolidates memory, and I think that's true. — Paul Auster

The funny thing is that I feel close to all my characters. Deep, deep inside them all. — 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

Times i think u were the most cherished trophy i had, but sometimes i think i was the game that you played. — 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

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

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