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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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When I look back at experience [with my father], all I can do is feel pity. You know, how torn he was about how to act, what to say. And it seems an important story to me.
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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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For some reason, all my characters come to me with their names attached to them. I never have to search for the names.
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