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As long as there's one person to believe it, there's no story that can't be true.
Paul Auster
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Paul Auster
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: February 3
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Libraries aren't in the real world, after all. They're places apart, sanctuaries of pure thought. In this way I can go on living on the moon for the rest of my life.
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And that's why books are never going to die. It's impossible. It's the only time we really go into the mind of a stranger, and we find our common humanity doing this. So the book doesn't only belong to the writer, it belongs to the reader as well, and then together you make it what it is.
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As my friend George Oppen once said to me about getting old: what a strange thing to happen to a little boy.
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In general, lives seem to veer abruptly from one thing to another, to jostle and bump, to squirm. A person heads in one direction, turns sharply in mid-course, stalls, drifts, starts up again. Nothing is ever known, and inevitably we come to a place quite different from the one we set out for.
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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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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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Fiction creating reality.
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We have missed him in the sunshine, in the storm, in the twilight, ever since.
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All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to make money however I could to keep myself going in some modest way, and I didn't need much, I was unmarried at the time, no children.
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The pictures do not lie, but neither do they tell the whole story. They are merely a record of time passing, the outward evidence.
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If you're not ready for everything, you're not ready for anything.
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I never feel I'm standing on solid ground, and I do write with a certain kind of trembling fear.
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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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The fiction is not autobiographical. Maybe to some extent it is, of course.
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We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate as personalities are the ones who lose that thread.
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I was always very curious as a young man about why older writers who I met seemed so indifferent to what was going on, whereas I, in my 20s, was reading everything. Everything seemed important. But they were only interested in the writers they admired when they were young, and I didn't understand it then, but now, now I understand it.
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What used to keep me up at night was the fact that I didn't know how I was going to pay the rent. Now that I can pay the rent, I'm worrying about people I care about, you know, the people I love. The little aches and pains of my children that I, my family. That's always first.
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I project myself so deeply into the characters in novels that I'm not thinking about my own life.
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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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