American - Author | February 3, 1947 -
The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In some ways we are, in some ways we're not. We are ruled by the forces of chance and coincidence.
Paul Auster
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I've always written by hand. Mostly with a fountain pen, but sometimes with a pencil - especially for corrections.
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For me, a paragraph in a novel is a bit like a line in a poem. It has its own shape, its own music, its own integrity.
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It's extremely difficult to get these jobs because you can't get a job on a ship unless you have seaman's paper's, and you can't get seaman's papers unless you have a job on a ship. There had to be a way to break through the circle, and he was the one who arranged it for me.
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We are continually shaped by the forces of coincidence.
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I'm living in the present, thinking about the past, hoping for the future.
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Changing your mind is probably one of the most beautiful things people can do. And I've changed my mind about a lot of things over the years.
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You can't put your feet on the ground until you've touched the sky.
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The human body is strange and flawed and unpredictable. The human body has many secrets, and it does not divulge them to anyone, except those who have learned to wait.
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Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.
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I like the sound a typewriter makes.
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All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to make money however I could to keep myself going in some modest way, and I didn't need much, I was unmarried at the time, no children.
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