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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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Paul Auster
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: February 3
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Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see where they are going to lead.
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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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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 think that's what turns young men and women into writers - the happiness you discover living in books.
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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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But lost chances are as much a part of life as chances taken, and a story cannot dwell on what might have been.
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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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[Charles] Reznikoff was in between faiths, in between worlds... a double, hyphenated American. I think it probably goes deeper than that.
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I was very moved to see that the name of the boat was Hamlet - an imaginary character becomes so important to people, we think about them so much that we name a ship after them. The imaginary lives on in the real.
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I had made an empirical discovery and it carried all the weight of a mathematical proof.
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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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The funny thing is that I feel close to all my characters. Deep, deep inside them all. I can't describe how deeply I love them all.
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He would conclude that nothing was real except chance.
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The fiction is not autobiographical. Maybe to some extent it is, of course.
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If the world weren't such a beautiful place, we might all turn into cynics
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