Home / Authors / Paul Auster

Paul Auster Quotes

Author

Paul Auster is an American author known for his unique narrative style and philosophical reflections. His works often explore themes of identity, memory, and reality, and have won him a wide audience.

Filter quotes by topic

All Thinking Writing Book Ifs World People Way Stories Novel Feels Want Kind Knows Men Trying Seems Happens I Can Different Fiction

Famous Paul Auster Quotes

“To care about words, to have a stake in what is written, to believe in the power of books - this overwhelms the rest, and beside it one's life becomes very small.”

Writing Believe Book Care Written Stakes

Book:The New York Trilogy

Source: The New York Trilogy

“Writing begins in the body, it is the music of the body, and even if the words have meaning, can sometimes have meaning, the music of the words is where the meanings begin....Writing as a lesser form of dance.”

Ifs Writing Sometimes Body Form

Author:Paul Auster

“Every novel is an equal collaboration between the writer and the reader and it is the only place in the world where two strangers can meet on terms of absolute intimacy.”

World Writing Two Term Novel Reader Equal Absolutes Stranger Intimacy Collaboration Places In The World

Book:Collected Prose: Autobiographical Writings, True Stories, Critical Essays, Prefaces, Collaborations with Artists, and Interviews

Source: Collected Prose: Autobiographical Writings, True Stories, Critical Essays, Prefaces, Collaborations with Artists, and Interviews

“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.”

Ifs Feels Writing Trying Mind Stories Beautiful Details Curious Passages Relevant Elegant Beautiful Writing

Book:Conversations with Paul Auster

Source: Conversations with Paul Auster

About the Author

Born: February 3, 1947
Known for: Author
Quotes: 429

Books & Sources

The New York TrilogyRelated source material

The Invention of SolitudeRelated source material

Conversations with Paul AusterRelated source material

The Brooklyn FolliesRelated source material

Moon Palace: A Novel (Penguin Ink)Related source material

4 3 2 1Related source material

Collected ProseRelated source material

Collected Novels Volume FourRelated source material

TimbuktuRelated source material

Collected Prose: Autobiographical Writings, True Stories, Critical Essays, Prefaces, Collaborations with Artists, and InterviewsRelated source material

Similar Authors

George SaundersBrowse related quotes
Stephen KingBrowse related quotes
Joyce Carol OatesBrowse related quotes
Salman RushdieBrowse related quotes
Neil GaimanBrowse related quotes
John IrvingBrowse related quotes
Junot DiazBrowse related quotes
Sandra CisnerosBrowse related quotes
Jeanette WintersonBrowse related quotes
Isabel AllendeBrowse related quotes