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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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Holes in the memory. You grab on to some things, others have completely disappeared.
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I started out in life as a poet, I was only writing poetry all through my 20s, it wasn't until I was about 30 that I got serious about writing prose. While I was writing poems, I would often divert myself by reading detective novels, I liked them.
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Every generation always thinks it was better before, and I think people have been saying this for probably thousands of years.
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It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the voice on the other end asking for someone he was not.
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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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Memory is the space in which a thing happens for a second time.
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