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When you're young, you keep reading new writers and you keep changing your mind about how you ought to sound.
Paul Auster
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Paul Auster
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: February 3
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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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I haven't done any translating for decades now. It's something I did when I was young.
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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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