Paul Auster Quotes About Past

Quotes about: Past

• 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

• Everyone reads a different book. That's what's interesting. Everyone sees a different film, as well. We bring our past lives to whatever work of art we're experiencing at that moment, and that's what makes it interesting. It's not mathematics. There are different answers for different people.

  Paul Auster

  Art, Book, Past

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. September 6, 2008.

• After something crystallizes, I can write ferociously and write novels in six months, which in the past would have taken me two years.

  Paul Auster

  Taken, Writing, Past

  Paul Auster, James M. Hutchisson (2013). “Conversations with Paul Auster”, p.201, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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