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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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I still believe we wasted a golden opportunity to make significant changes in our country. I think people in America would have been ready and willing to do it, but the Bush administration took a kind of simplistic, almost moronic approach to it, all because people were so afraid.
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Wounds are an essential part of life, and until you are wounded in some way, you cannot become a man.
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I think people are trying out ideas with the new technology and it's too early to say where it's going exactly. But again, whether it's digital or paper, it doesn't matter. It's words that somebody is reading and getting an experience out of that reading. That's all that really matters.
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Take a report. It's dry, the sentences are clunky and unfelicitous, they're just conveying information. But it seems to me that if you're fully engaged in a great piece of literature, once you enter the rhythms of the language, which is a kind of music, meanings are being conveyed that you're not fully aware of. They enter into your subconscious.
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I had jumped off the edge, and then, at the very last moment, something reached out and caught me in midair. That something is what I define as love. It is the one thing that can stop a man from falling, powerful enough to negate the laws of gravity.
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I see myself as anybody, as everybody I'm not just telling the story of my life to give the reader a picture of who I am.
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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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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 fiction is not autobiographical. Maybe to some extent it is, of course.
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Some like to think that a keen appreciation of art can actually make us better people - more just, more moral, more sensitive, more understanding. Perhaps that is true - in certain rare, isolated cases.
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You're too good for this world, and because of that the world will eventually crush you.
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Late style gets simpler and shorter, and here, I'm getting more abundant as I get older!
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I think human beings wouldn't be human without narrative fiction.
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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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He would conclude that nothing was real except chance.
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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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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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I would say that Edgar Allan Poe, [Georges] Perec, Thomas Pynchon, and [Jorge Luis] Borges are all boy-writers. These are writers who take... a kind of demonic joy in writing.
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Stories only happen to those who are able to tell them.
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I started out in life as a poet, I was only writing poetry all through my 20s, it wasn't until I was about 30 that I got serious about writing prose. While I was writing poems, I would often divert myself by reading detective novels, I liked them.
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