728 Quotes by Paul Auster

I feel I'm discovering something new, a different rhythm, and I guess these rhythms have a lot to do with walking, too, but it's a longer trajectory now. I'm traveling greater distances with each sentence. But I don't write about walking that much anymore.

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

I'd go nuts. Because people look at the same passage and one person will say this is the best thing he's ever read, and another person will say it's absolutely idiotic. I mean, there's no way to reconcile those two things. You just have to forget the whole business of what people are saying.

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

I like the sound a typewriter makes.

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

The best filmmakers, I think, have always had very narrow frameworks for their stories, and then they can go deeply, rather than skimming the surface.

When you're young, you keep reading new writers and you keep changing your mind about how you ought to sound.

I don't like that word [memoir]. Whenever my publishers have wanted to use it, I've told them to take it away.