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Some things get written more quickly than others, but I can't really measure degrees of difficulty.

~Paul Auster

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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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I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then I type it up because sometimes it's almost illegible, and if I wait, I might not be able to read it the next day.

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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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I think New York has evolved in my work just the way the city has.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: February 3rd, 1947

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