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Paul Auster

Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn’t write, I would stop breathing.

– Paul Auster

Paul Auster

When you pick up a book, everyone knows it’s imaginary. You don’t have to pretend it’s not a book. We don’t have to pretend that people don’t write books. That omniscient third-person narration isn’t the only way to do it. Once you’re writing in the first person, then the narrator is a writer.

– Paul Auster

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

Paul Auster

I write the paragraph, then I’m crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then I type it up because sometimes it’s almost illegible, and if I wait, I might not be able to read it the next day.

– Paul Auster

Paul Auster

When I write, the story is always uppermost in my mind, and I feel that everything must be sacrificed to it. All elegant passages, all the curious details, all the so-called beautiful writing – if they are not truly relevant to what I am trying to say, then they have to go.

– Paul Auster

Paul Auster

I can never say ‘why’ about anything I do. I suppose I can say ‘how’ and ‘when’ and ‘what.’ But ‘why’ is impenetrable to me.

– Paul Auster

Paul Auster

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

– Paul Auster

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

Paul Auster

I like the sound a typewriter makes.

– Paul Auster

Paul Auster

Even in New York, there are a lot of very attractive girls pedaling around. That just happens to be one of the nice sights in our city, seeing a young woman on a bike.

– Paul Auster

Paul Auster

I think if we didn’t contradict ourselves, it would be awfully boring. It would be tedious to be alive.

– Paul Auster

Paul Auster

Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story, when our mother or father would sit down beside us in the semi-dark and read from a book of fairy tales.

– Paul Auster

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