Paul Auster Quotes About Childhood

Quotes about: Childhood

• I thought, "Well, I'm writing about early childhood, so maybe it would make sense to write about late childhood as well, early adulthood." Those were my thoughts, and this was how this crazy book [Winter Journal] was composed. I've never seen a book with pictures like at the end, pictures related to things you've read before.

  Paul Auster

  Crazy, Book, Writing

  Interview with Nathalie Cochoy, Sophie Vallas, transatlantica.revues.org. March 2014.

• The childhood scenes [ in The Tree of Life] are tremendous. My favorite moment is when the mother levitate - for three seconds. Of course, this is how a child thinks of his mother.

  Paul Auster

  Mother, Children, Thinking

  Interview with Nathalie Cochoy, Sophie Vallas, transatlantica.revues.org. March 2014.

• In Invisible there's a lot about childhood, the death of the brother and then the relationship between the brother and sister.

  Paul Auster

  Brother, Childhood, Brothers And Sisters

  Interview with Nathalie Cochoy and Sophie Vallas, transatlantica.revues.org. March 2014.

• There are often references to childhood, but they're rarely the focus of the [my] novels.

  Paul Auster

  Focus, Childhood, Novel

  Interview with Nathalie Cochoy and Sophie Vallas for Transatlantica, transatlantica.revues.org. March 2014.

• Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story, when our mother or father would sit down beside us in the semi-dark and read from a book of fairy tales.

  Paul Auster

  Mother, Father, Book

  "I want to tell you a story" by Paul Auster, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2006.

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