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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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Artists are the people for whom the world is not enough.
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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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I have difficulty orienting myself in space, and I'm probably one of the few people who gets lost in Manhattan.
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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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I think I hate cynicism more than anything else. It's the curse of our age, and I want to avoid it at all costs.
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As long as a man had the courage to reject what society told him to do, he could live life on his own terms. To what end? To be free. But free to what end? To read books, to write books, to think.
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I think that's what turns young men and women into writers - the happiness you discover living in books.
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Money's important. Everyone cares about money. And when you don't have money, money becomes the overriding obsession of your life.
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Writing has always had a tactile quality for me. It's a physical experience.
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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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It would be a terrible world if everyone was an artist. Nothing would get done!
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Fiction creating reality.
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You can't ever approach a book as a complete virgin, certainly not if you're a critic. There is a lot of bad faith out there. That's why I finally trained myself not to look at this stuff anymore, because it doesn't do me any good to see myself either praised or attacked.
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I had jumped off the edge, and then, at the very last moment, something reached out and caught me in midair. That something is what I define as love. It is the one thing that can stop a man from falling, powerful enough to negate the laws of gravity.
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I use things, I steal things from my life when I want to, when I need to, or when it seems appropriate. But most of the stuff in my novels is entirely invented, ninety-five percent. And even when I do borrow something, it becomes fictionalized.
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