Paul Auster Quotes About Memories

Quotes about: Memories

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

  Paul Auster

  Memories, Space, Happens

• The pen will never be able to move fast enough to write down every word discovered in the space of memory. Some things have been lost forever, other things will perhaps be remembered again, and still other things have been lost and found and lost again. There is no way to be sure of any this.

  Paul Auster

  Memories, Moving, Writing

  Paul Auster (2011). “Collected Prose”, p.193, Faber & Faber

• As Siri says, who is deeply involved with neuroscience, emotion consolidates memory, and I think that's true.

  Paul Auster

  Memories, Thinking, Emotion

  "An Interview with Paul Auster". Interview with Nathalie Cochoy and Sophie Vallas, transatlantica.revues.org. March 2014.

• Holes in the memory. You grab on to some things, others have completely disappeared.

  Paul Auster

  Memories, Holes

• Memory and the imagination are almost identical. It's the same place in the brain and the same thing is happening. When you think about your own life, there are no memories without place. You are always situated somewhere. I think the imagination - the narrative imagination at least - situates you in a specific space when you start to think of a story. I often use places I know. I put my characters inside rooms and houses that I'm familiar with - sometimes the houses of my parents or grandparents or previous apartments I've lived in.

  Paul Auster

  Memories, Character, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Reason and memory are nearly always at odds.

  Paul Auster

  Memories, Odds, Reason

  Paul Auster (2016). “Collected Novels Volume Four”, p.486, Faber & Faber

• When the father dies, he writes, the son becomes his own father and his own son. He looks at is son and sees himself in the face of the boy. He imagines what the boy sees when he looks at him and finds himself becoming his own father. Inexplicably, he is moved by this. It is not just the sight of the boy that moves him, not even the thought of standing inside his father, but what he sees in the boy of his own vanished past. It is a nostalgia for his own life that he feels, perhaps, a memory of his own boyhood as a son to his father.

  Paul Auster

  Memories, Father, Moving

  Paul Auster (2007). “The Invention of Solitude”, p.102, Penguin

• Each man, therefore, is the entire world, bearing within his genes a memory of all mankind. Or as Leibniz put it: ‘Every living substance is a perpetual living mirror of the universe’

  Paul Auster

  Memories, Men, Mirrors

  Paul Auster (2007). “The Invention of Solitude”, p.148, Penguin

• It's beyond the grasp of anyone's memory to recall conversations in kind of [memoir] detail. So it's fake. It's all made up.

  Paul Auster

  Memories, Fake, Details

  Time Out Interview, www.timeout.com.

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