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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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It's always a mystery to me, I have to confess. I've never been able to witness the birth of an idea. It seems as if one second, there's nothing particularly going on, and the next second, something is there.
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I feel that the act of writing, in and of itself, is a tool towards probing that which you wouldn't without that pen in your hand. It's a strange, almost neurological phenomenon, and the words seem to generate more words - but only when you're writing. You can't do it in your head.
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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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The moon people do not eat by swallowing food but by smelling it. Their money is poetry - actual poems, written out on pieces of paper whose value is determined by the worth of the poem itself.
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In fact, writing, especially writing autobiographical works, and this is actually the fourth time I've done it, each time I've done it I've felt deeply immersed in the material as I'm doing it, and then it's over and everything is the same.
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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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What I'm trying to do [in Winter Journal] is to tell the story of a man's life from birth, but there are different versions of him, four different versions.
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If you're not ready for everything, you're not ready for anything.
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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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I haven't done any translating for decades now. It's something I did when I was young.
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I'm not a man deeply interested in technology. It eludes me. I confess I don't even have a computer, I don't have a cell phone.
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The weird world rolls on... meaning that through all the ups and downs, all the travails that we go through, all the horrors, all the wars, all the deaths, all the cruelties, there's still something that keeps us wanting to wake up the next morning and go on with our lives - to make children, to fall in love, to continue humanity.
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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 never feel I'm standing on solid ground, and I do write with a certain kind of trembling fear.
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It would be a terrible world if everyone was an artist. Nothing would get done!
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We are all aliens to ourselves, and if we have any sense of who we are, it is only because we live inside the eyes of others.
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I had made an empirical discovery and it carried all the weight of a mathematical proof.
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Dismantling the architecture of my discontent
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Existence was bigger than just life. It was everyone's life all together, and even if you lived in Buffalo, New York and had never been more than ten miles from home, you were part of the puzzle, too. It didn't matter how small your life was.
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Stories only happen to those who are able to tell them.
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