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
People who don't like my work say that the connections seem too arbitrary. But that's how life is. Paul Auster
In my studio, it is unkempt and unattractive. Once I'm in my work, I don't notice where I am. Paul Auster
I really do feel part of America to my very bones; at the same time, I know that I come from somewhere else. Paul Auster
I barely can go shopping for clothes. I find it difficult to walk into stores. The whole thing bores me so much. Paul Auster
For me, a paragraph in a novel is a bit like a line in a poem. It has its own shape, its own music, its own integrity. Paul Auster
Changing your mind is probably one of the most beautiful things people can do. And I've changed my mind about a lot of things over the years. Paul Auster
We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate as personalities are the ones who lose that thread. Paul Auster
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
All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to make money however I could to keep myself going in some modest way, and I didn't need much, I was unmarried at the time, no children. Paul Auster
I never experiment with anything in my books. Experimentation means you don't know what you're doing. 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
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
Each book I've done somehow finds its own unique form, a specific way it has to be written, and once I find it, I stick with it. Paul Auster