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Top 380 Paul Auster Quotes (2025 Update)
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Paul Auster Quote: “I was twelve years old the first time I walked on water. The man in the black clothes taught me how to do it, and I’m not going to pretend I learned that trick overnight.”
Paul Auster Quote: “Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them up with great passion. That is because human beings need stories.”
Paul Auster Quote: “That was the real difference, Ferguson concluded. Not too little money or too much money, not what a person did or failed to do, not buying a larger house or a more expensive car, but ambition. That explained why Brownstein and Solomon managed to float through their lives in relative peace – because they weren’t tormented by the curse of ambition.”
Paul Auster Quote: “I’ve written books that have taken me fifteen years, from first sentence to last, and some that only take three or four months.”
Paul Auster Quote: “No one wants to be part of a fiction, and even less so if that fiction is real.”
Paul Auster Quote: “Our lives are no more than the sum of manifold contingencies, and no matter how diverse they might be in their details, they all share an essential randomness in their design: this then that, and because of that, this.”
Paul Auster Quote: “The sky is white. It smells of the earth, and it is not there. The sky is white like the earth, and it smells of yesterday. All this was tomorrow. All this was a hundred years from now.”
Paul Auster Quote: “A good sense of humor, then, a taste for the ironies of life, and an appreciation of the absurd.”
Paul Auster Quote: “I’m looking for oblivion, Doctor, not death. The drugs will put me to sleep, and as long as I’m unconscious, I won’t have to think about what I’m doing. I’ll be there, but I won’t be there, and to the degree that I’m not there, I’ll be protected.”
Paul Auster Quote: “I don’t want to use quotation marks anymore, I’ve gone back and forth with them. In Ghosts, I didn’t use them, for instance, all the way back in the early eighties.”
Paul Auster Quote: “Nobody asks you to do this. The world out there is not panting after another novelist. We choose it.”
Paul Auster Quote: “Las historias sin final no pueden hacer otra cosa que continuar eternamente...”
Paul Auster Quote: “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 Quote: “Perhaps when we shrink down to almost nothing, we will at last find one another. Life is, after all, very difficult. Most of us die here simply because we forget to breathe.”
Paul Auster Quote: “I guess the important thing for young writers is to read.”
Paul Auster Quote: “Farts come from no one and nowhere; they are anonymous emanations that belong to the group as a whole, and even when every person in the room can point to the culprit, the only sane course of action is denial.”
Paul Auster Quote: “And I am nothing if not a stupid, stupid man.”
Paul Auster Quote: “But that was the beauty of this particular game. The moment you lost, you won.”
Paul Auster Quote: “Thoughts are real’, he said. ‘Words are real. Everything human is real, and sometimes we know things before they happen, even if we aren’t aware of it. We live in the present, but the future is inside us at every moment. Maybe that’s what writing is all about, Sid. Not recording events from the past, but making things happen in the future’.”
Paul Auster Quote: “No book includes the entire world. It’s limited. And so it doesn’t seem like an aesthetic compromise to have to do that. There’s so much other material to write about.”
Paul Auster Quote: “History is present in all my novels. And whether I am directly talking about the sociological moment or just immersing my character in the environment, I am very aware of it.”
Paul Auster Quote: “Everything is connected to everything else, every story overlaps with every other story.”
Paul Auster Quote: “I’m in constant inner dialogue with my father still.”
Paul Auster Quote: “In the long run, stories are probably no less valuable than money, but in the short run they have their decided limitations.”
Paul Auster Quote: “His mother’s name was Rose, and when he was big enough to tie his shoes and stop wetting the bed, he was going to marry her.”
Paul Auster Quote: “It was something like the word ‘it’ in the phrase ‘it is raining’ or ‘it is night’. What that ‘it’ referred to Quinn had never known.”
Paul Auster Quote: “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 Quote: “Surely it is an odd way to spend your life – sitting alone in a room with a pen in your hand, hour after hour, day after day, year after year, struggling to put words on pieces of paper in order to give birth to what does not exist, except in your head. Why on earth would anyone want to do such a thing? The only answer I have ever been able to come up with is: because you have to, because you have no choice.”
Paul Auster Quote: “Some like to think that a keen appreciation of art can actually make us better people – more just, more moral, more sensitive, more understanding. Perhaps that is true – in certain rare, isolated cases.”
Paul Auster Quote: “The world wasn’t real anymore. Everything in it was a fraudulent copy of what it should have been, and everything that happened in it shouldn’t have been happening. For a long time afterward, Ferguson lived under the spell of this illusion, sleepwalking through his days and struggling to fall asleep at night, sick of a world he had stopped believing in, doubting everything that presented itself to his eyes.”
Paul Auster Quote: “This is what is called speaking. I believe that is the term. When words come out, fly into the air, live for a moment, and die. Strange, is it not? I myself have no opinion. No and no again. But still, there are words you will need to have. There are many of them. Many millions, I think. Perhaps only three or four. Excuse me. But I am doing well today. So much better than usual. If I can give you the words you need to have, it will be a great victory. Thank you. Thank you a million times over.”
Paul Auster Quote: “Entrances do not become exits, and there is nothing to guarantee that the door you walked through a moment ago will still be there when you turn around to look for it again.”
Paul Auster Quote: “Once a man begins to recognize himself in another, he can no longer look on that person as a stranger.”
Paul Auster Quote: “I learned that freedom can be dangerous. If you don’t watch out, it can kill you.”
Paul Auster Quote: “Once you turn against yourself, it’s hard not to believe that everyone else is against you, too.”
Paul Auster Quote: “How is it possible for someone who believes that the world was created in six days to have a rational conversation with me, who doesnt believe that, about other possibilities?”
Paul Auster Quote: “I feel now, in my impending old age, very lucky. I just can’t tell you how lucky I feel, that I’ve managed to first of all, stay alive this long, in reasonably good health, and that I’ve been able to do what I want to do.”
Paul Auster Quote: “I never would have thought of that word, “hospitality.” I settle into the rhythm of my steps.”
Paul Auster Quote: “But laugh laugh at me Men from around the world especially people from here For there are so many things I don’t dare tell you So many things you wouldn’t let me say Have pity on me.”
Paul Auster Quote: “He knew that his wings could ignite at any moment, but the closer he came to touching the fire, the more he sensed that he was fulfilling his destiny. As he put it in his journal that night: If I mean to save my life, then I have to come within an inch of destroying it.”
Paul Auster Quote: “By that point, of course, the girl no longer misses the doll. He has given her something else instead, and by the time those three weeks are up, the letters have cured her of her unhappiness. She has the story, and when a person is lucky enough to live inside a story, to live inside an imaginary world, the pains of this world disappear. For as long as the story goes on, reality no longer exists.”
Paul Auster Quote: “People who don’t like my work say that the connections seem too arbitrary. But that’s how life is.”
Paul Auster Quote: “It’s like a mathematical law, Grace.”
Paul Auster Quote: “I’ve made my nothing, and now I’ve got to live in it.”
Paul Auster Quote: “A book is a mysterious object, I said, and once it floats out into the world, anything can happen.”
Paul Auster Quote: “For me, books were not the containers of words so much as the words themselves, and the value of a given book was determined by its spiritual quality rather than its physical condition.”
Paul Auster Quote: “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 Quote: “Wounds are an essential part of life, and until you are wounded in some way, you cannot become a man.”
Paul Auster Quote: “They had come to the end of what they could talk about. Beyond that point there was nothing: the random thoughts of men who knew nothing.”
Paul Auster Quote: “I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets. That kind of spilled out into translation as a way to earn money, pay for food and put bread on the table.”
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