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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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Paul Auster
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: February 3
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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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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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I guess of all those novels, Don DeLillo's Falling Man is the one I like the best. I thought there were some beautiful things in that, particularly the relationship between the man who finds the briefcase and the woman whose husband owned the briefcase. It's quite a beautiful passage.
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I know that what's happened in the election has changed American reality, and I understand that I have to change with it. I have to rethink how I live my life. I'm not a political essayist I don't see that I would have any value cranking out articles for newspapers or magazines, because lots of people are doing that already.
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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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My characters, I find them as I'm writing. It's quite incredible how fully realized they are in my mind, how many details I know about each of them.
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I've learned not to look at reviews. Early on, I did. I was always curious.
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I've written books that have taken me fifteen years, from first sentence to last, and some that only take three or four months.
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Writing is a solitary business. It takes over your life. In some sense, a writer has no life of his own. Even when he’s there, he’s not really there.
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Every generation always thinks it was better before, and I think people have been saying this for probably thousands of years.
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Our lives don't really belong to us, you see -- they belong to the world, and in spite of our efforts to make sense of it, the world is a place beyond our understanding.
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Medical care for the entire country seems to me a basic right. If every other country in the West can do it, why can't we?
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As long as you are dreaming, there is always a way out
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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 like the sound a typewriter makes.
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The fiction is not autobiographical. Maybe to some extent it is, of course.
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It's June second, he told himself. Try to remember that. This is New York, and tomorrow will be June third. If all goes well, the following day will be the fourth. But nothing is certain.
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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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As long as there's one person to believe it, there's no story that can't be true.
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I was extremely shy. And I simply didn't know how to go about it. It seemed a lot easier to write than to make films. All I needed was a pencil and a piece of paper, whereas filmmaking was something I had no access to.
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