American - Author | February 3, 1947 -
I woke up one day and thought: 'I want to write a book about the history of my body.' I could justify talking about my mother because it was in her body that my body began.
Paul Auster
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Holes in the memory. You grab on to some things, others have completely disappeared.
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I think if we didn't contradict ourselves, it would be awfully boring. It would be tedious to be alive.
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The most challenging project I've ever done, I think, is every single thing I've ever tried to do. It's never easy.
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Some things get written more quickly than others, but I can't really measure degrees of difficulty.
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I think it's a very good thing to leave your country and look at it from afar.
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I guess the toughest things in translations are word play, which can never be reproduced exactly.
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People look at the same passage, and one person will say this is the best thing he's ever read, and another person will say it's absolutely idiotic. I mean, there's no way to reconcile those two things. You just have to forget the whole business of what people are saying.
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I'm really trying to dredge up what one might call intellectual and moral material. For example, when do you realize that you are an American? What age does that happen to you? When do you realize what religion your parents practice? When does it all become conscious? I was interested in exploring all of that.
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All through my writing life, I've had this impulse to write autobiographical works.
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I really have no interest in myself.
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When I'm writing, I don't feel neurotic. So it's better for the family if I'm working.
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