Paul Auster Quotes

I like autobiographies. I wouldn't mind making one of those.

My work is purely autobiographical... It is about myself and my surroundings.

I write about my life.

You write an autobiography because you want to tell people how you felt about a certain matter at that time.

I've written three books you could think of as memoirs.

One of the most attractive things about writing your autobiography is that you're not dead.

My autobiography was simply the story of my life.

I'm just basically telling a story of my life.

Few writers are willing to admit writing is autobiographical.

Autobiographies, for the most part, to me, are like writing a love letter to yourself.

If you're going to write about your life, you must write about your life.

Anyone can write your own life story.

I do like reading autobiographies, if I'm honest.

I'm writing my biography. It's my business. This is what happened in my life, and I'm writing about it.

An autobiography is the story of how a man thinks he lived.

Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography.

I believe there's only one autobiography you can do.

I write about true-life type things.

I think many people need, even require, a narrative version of their life. I seem to be one of them. Writing memoir is, in some ways, a work of wholeness.

There may be a point where I may decide to write an autobiography.

Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.

An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.

Not to be too 'Tale of Two Cities' about it, but I find writing a memoir easier than writing fiction, and more difficult.

I write a lot about my experiences and the people I meet. I've got a lot of material. But a book about me? It seems sort of odd.

Every artist writes his own autobiography.