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For some reason, all my characters come to me with their names attached to them. I never have to search for the names.
Paul Auster
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Paul Auster
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: February 3
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Each book I've done somehow finds its own unique form, a specific way it has to be written, and once I find it, I stick with it.
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I'm really trying to dredge up what one might call intellectual and moral material. For example, when do you realize that you are an American? What age does that happen to you? When do you realize what religion your parents practice? When does it all become conscious? I was interested in exploring all of that.
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I think that's what turns young men and women into writers - the happiness you discover living in books.
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No one can cross the boundary into another -- for the simple reason that no one can gain access to himself
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We are all aliens to ourselves, and if we have any sense of who we are, it is only because we live inside the eyes of others.
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Cities - I'm attracted to them, and I have a special attachment to New York...it's my place.
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Stories without endings can do nothing but go on forever, and to be caught in one means that you must die before your part in it is played out.
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I don't like talking about my work at all. I find it very difficult. I never know what to say. It's too close to me, and there's so many things happening unconsciously while I'm working that I'm not aware of, and people will point these things out to me, and I'll say, That's interesting. But I don't know what to make of it.
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Translators are the shadow heroes of literature, the often forgotten instruments that make it possible for different cultures to talk to one another, who have enabled us to understand that we all, from every part of the world, live in one world.
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I think if we didn't contradict ourselves, it would be awfully boring. It would be tedious to be alive.
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I don't think that you can be prescriptive about anything, I mean, life is too complicated. Maybe there are novels where the author has not in the least thought about it in terms of film, which can be turned into good films.
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There are two kinds of typical days. There's the typical day when I'm writing a novel, and there's the typical day when I'm not.
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The joke is the purest, most essential form of storytelling. Every word has to count.
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The mental state I'm in is completely different, but the act of trying to write is the same. I mean, in all instances you try to write good sentences. But in a novel you're free to do whatever you want, and in the autobiographical works you can't make things up.
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Something happens, Blue thinks, and then it goes on happening forever. It can never be changed, can never be otherwise.
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I don't read reviews any more, but I'm told by my publisher who gives me an account of what people have been writing and it's been a very split kind of response.
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We are continually shaped by the forces of coincidence.
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I don't like pictures in books. I feel that the pictures diminish the words, and the words diminish the pictures, and it doesn't work.
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In other words: It seems to me that I will always be happy in the place where I am not. Or, more bluntly: Wherever I am not is the place where I am myself. Or else, taking the bull by the horns: Anywhere out of the world.
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Changing your mind is probably one of the most beautiful things people can do. And I've changed my mind about a lot of things over the years.
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