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Books demand more. You have to be a more active participant.
Paul Auster
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Paul Auster
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: February 3
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Changing your mind is probably one of the most beautiful things people can do. And I've changed my mind about a lot of things over the years.
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We hear things, but we can't always see them, or, even if we do see them, we're not sure that we're seeing correctly. Hence: Invisible.
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How can you think about the world without factoring in the unforseen, the fluke event?
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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 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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We have missed him in the sunshine, in the storm, in the twilight, ever since.
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Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see where they are going to lead.
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There are often references to childhood, but they're rarely the focus of the [my] novels.
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Life is deeply tragic and also very comic at the same time. It's everything at once.
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Stories only happen to those who are able to tell them.
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Betty died of a broken heart. Some people laugh when they hear that phrase, but that's because they don't know anything about the world. People die of broken hearts. It happens every day, and it will go on happening to the end of time.
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[Charles] Reznikoff was in between faiths, in between worlds... a double, hyphenated American. I think it probably goes deeper than that.
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For one reason or another, I became a passionate reader when I was very little. As soon as I could read, I wanted to read.
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I like the sound a typewriter makes.
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Some like to think that a keen appreciation of art can actually make us better people - more just, more moral, more sensitive, more understanding. Perhaps that is true - in certain rare, isolated cases.
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I don't know why I write. If I knew the answer, I probably wouldn't have to. But it is a compulsion. You don't choose it, it chooses you. And I wouldn't recommend it to anybody.
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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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I would say that Edgar Allan Poe, [Georges] Perec, Thomas Pynchon, and [Jorge Luis] Borges are all boy-writers. These are writers who take... a kind of demonic joy in writing.
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Translators are the shadow heroes of literature, the often forgotten instruments that make it possible for different cultures to talk to one another, who have enabled us to understand that we all, from every part of the world, live in one world.
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I project myself so deeply into the characters in novels that I'm not thinking about my own life.
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