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The biggest book for me, when I was fifteen, was Crime and Punishment, which I read in a kind of fever. When I put it down, I thought, if this is what novels are then I want to be a novelist.
Paul Auster
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Paul Auster
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: February 3
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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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This was the first time he had seriously confronted what he was doing, and the force of that awareness came very abruptly - with a surging of his pulse and a frantic pounding in his head. He was about to gamble his life on that table, and the insanity of that risk filled him with a kind of awe.
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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've learned not to look at reviews. Early on, I did. I was always curious.
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We are continually shaped by the forces of coincidence.
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Holes in the memory. You grab on to some things, others have completely disappeared.
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Fiction creating reality.
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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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