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My characters, I find them as I'm writing. It's quite incredible how fully realized they are in my mind, how many details I know about each of them.
Paul Auster
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Paul Auster
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: February 3
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I walk around the world like a ghost, and sometimes I question whether I even exist. Whether I've ever existed at all.
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It would be a terrible world if everyone was an artist. Nothing would get done!
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Everyone reads a different book. That's what's interesting. Everyone sees a different film, as well. We bring our past lives to whatever work of art we're experiencing at that moment, and that's what makes it interesting. It's not mathematics. There are different answers for different people.
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