Quotes by : Paul Auster

You see, the interesting thing about books, as opposed, say, to films, is that it's always just one person....

it's a rare day when she speaks in anything but platitudes--all those exhausted phrases and hand-me-down....

I was in the book, and the book was in my head, and as long as I stayed inside my head, I could go on....

I learned that books are never finished, that it is possible for stories to go on writing themselves....

Don't be a writer; it's a terrible way to live your life. There's nothing to be gained from it but poverty....

And I am nothing if not a stupid, stupid man.

but even the facts do not always tell the truth

A meal was no more than a fragile defense against the inevitability of the next meal. Food itself could....

Something was wrong, and while Mr. Bones could scarcely imagine what that thing was, Henry's sadness....

Memory, therefore, not simply as the resurrection of one’s private past, but an immersion in the past....