Paul Auster Quotes

The history of my life must begin by the earliest circumstance which my memory can evoke; it will therefore commence when I had attained the age of eight years and four months.

Years of my life were lived knowing that I'd get a book out of them one day.

I've been asked to write an autobiography, and I've started it a couple of times, on different angles, and maybe one day I will, but you know what? There's time for that because I'd like to have the whole story.

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.

A memoir is an invitation into another person's privacy.

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

'Restaurant Man' is kind of the story, an unabridged story of what happened in my life, the good bad and ugly. Some people might glean some life lessons. It is honest, not written as a press release.

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.

A memoir takes some particular threads, some incidents, some experience from a person's life and gives an account of it.

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.

In the winter of 2012, as my fiftieth birthday approached, I began to write what turned into my autobiography, a look at my own life through the lens of food.

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.

My mother always said that everyone should be required to write an autobiography of their lives.

I'm not gonna do the same, tired, standard 'I was born in a log cabin...' kind of book. There's so much more I want to do.

Every artist writes his own autobiography.

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.

My Life in CIA is the first time that I've ever written a story in my own name.

Usually, autobiography is such an indulgence of the ego.

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

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

I haven't read any of the autobiographies about me.