Paul Auster: Story

Paul Auster is novelist, poet, essayist, screenwriter. Explore interesting quotes on story.

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“That's what makes his story so impossible, David. Because he's told me the truth. (Alma to David on Hector)”

Paul Auster book The Book of Illusions

The Book of Illusions (2002)

“The story is not in the words; it's in the struggle.”

Paul Auster The New York Trilogy

"The Locked Room", p. 294
The New York Trilogy (1987)

“April 1945. My unit was in Germany, and we were the ones who liberated Dachau. Thirty thousands breathing skeletons. You've seen the pictures, but the pictures don't tell you what it was like. You have to go there and smell it for yourself; you have to be there and touch it with your own hands. Human beings did it to human beings, and they did it with a clear conscience. That was the end of mankind […] I'm sure you've read the stories about how some of them couldn't stop eating. The starved ones. They'd thought about food for so long, they couldn't help it. They ate until their stomachs burst, and they died. Hundreds of them.”

Paul Auster book Oracle Night

Paul Auster, Oracle Night, New York: Henry Holt and Company, p. 92.
Oracle Night (2003)