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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.
Paul Auster
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Paul Auster
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: February 3
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I feel I'm discovering something new, a different rhythm, and I guess these rhythms have a lot to do with walking, too, but it's a longer trajectory now. I'm traveling greater distances with each sentence. But I don't write about walking that much anymore.
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I like the sound a typewriter makes.
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The only person I knew how to be with now was myself - but I wasn´t really anyone, and I wasn´t really alive. I was just someone who pretended to be alive, a dead mean who spent his days translating a dead man´s book.
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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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It would be a terrible world if everyone was an artist. Nothing would get done!
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I believe that every artist, in one way or another, is a wounded person. It's not natural to make art.
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I have difficulty orienting myself in space, and I'm probably one of the few people who gets lost in Manhattan.
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I thought, Well, I'm writing about early childhood, so maybe it would make sense to write about late childhood as well, early adulthood. Those were my thoughts, and this was how this crazy book [Winter Journal] was composed. I've never seen a book with pictures like at the end, pictures related to things you've read before.
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Writing has always had a tactile quality for me. It's a physical experience.
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If the world weren't such a beautiful place, we might all turn into cynics
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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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It became a habit of mine never to leave the house without a pencil in my pocket.
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