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The joke is the purest, most essential form of storytelling. Every word has to count.
Paul Auster
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Paul Auster
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: February 3
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No book includes the entire world. It's limited. And so it doesn't seem like an aesthetic compromise to have to do that. There's so much other material to write about.
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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've learned not to look at reviews. Early on, I did. I was always curious.
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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 real is always way ahead of what we can imagine.
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I use things, I steal things from my life when I want to, when I need to, or when it seems appropriate. But most of the stuff in my novels is entirely invented, ninety-five percent. And even when I do borrow something, it becomes fictionalized.
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I had made an empirical discovery and it carried all the weight of a mathematical proof.
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Fiction creating reality.
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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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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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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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