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Stories only happen to those who are able to tell them.

Paul Auster

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Paul Auster
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: February 3
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After something crystallizes, I can write ferociously and write novels in six months, which in the past would have taken me two years.
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I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come back, I needed some breathing room. I'd already been translating French poetry, I'd been to Paris once before and liked it very much, and so I just went.
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We are continually shaped by the forces of coincidence.
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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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I know the pleasure you get from making your films. The intense involvement in every aspect: the acting, the camera, the colors, the costumes, even the hair and makeup. Editing is thrilling. Everything to do with films is absorbing - everything but the money part, the business. But I'm deeply glad I've had that experience.
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Some people are great, and they approach each work with honesty, and that's wonderful. But when people have built up a sort of resentment or animosity for reasons that are hard to put your finger on, they read in bad faith.
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The real is always way ahead of what we can imagine.
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When you're young, you keep reading new writers and you keep changing your mind about how you ought to sound.
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The fiction is not autobiographical. Maybe to some extent it is, of course.
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It became a habit of mine never to leave the house without a pencil in my pocket.
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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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