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The kind of fiction I'm trying to write is about telling the truth.
Paul Auster
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Paul Auster
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: February 3
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Don't be a writer, it's a terrible way to live your life, there's nothing to be gained from it but poverty and obscurity and solitude. So if you have a taste for all those things, which means that you really are burning to do it, then go ahead and do it.
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