You tend to feel very hurt when people attack you and feel indifferent when you get praise. You think, ‘Of course they like it. They should like it.’ Paul Auster Read Quote
Writing is such a strange, utterly mysterious process. First, there was nothing; then, suddenly, there was something. I don’t know where thoughts are born. Where the hell does it come from? I don’t know. I really don’t know. Paul Auster Read Quote
I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We’ve kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods, most of which people don’t need. I’m anti-consumerism; I own four pairs of black Levis and that’s it. Paul Auster Read Quote
The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I’m talking about myself very directly. Paul Auster Read Quote
I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn’t until I was about 30 that I got serious about writing prose. While I was writing poems, I would often divert myself by reading detective novels; I liked them. Paul Auster Read Quote
For some reason, all my characters come to me with their names attached to them. I never have to search for the names. Paul Auster Read Quote
You have to protect it too, you can’t let just any stupid person take it and do something demoralizing with it. At the same time, I don’t believe in being so rigid about controlling what happens either. Paul Auster Read 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 Read Quote
I guess the toughest things in translations are word play, which can never be reproduced exactly. Paul Auster Read Quote
