You have to really have a taste for being alone to be a writer.

- Paul Auster

We find ourselves only by looking to what we’re not.

- Paul Auster

Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.

- Paul Auster

Memory is the space in which a thing happens for a second time.

- Paul Auster

No one was to blame for what happened, but that does not make it any less difficult to accept. It was all a matter of missed connections, bad timing,…

- 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

People say you have to travel to see the world. Sometimes I think that if you just stay in one place and keep your eyes open, you're going to see jus…

- Paul Auster

What matters is not how well you can avoid trouble, but how you cope with trouble when it comes.

- 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