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“[Lev] Tolstoy is not a boy-writer. He's a grown-up. And [Fedor] Doestoeivski is not a boy-writer.”

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Paul Auster is an American author known for his unique narrative style and philosophical reflections. His works often explore themes of identity, memory, and reality, and have won him a wide audience. more

“For example, when I was writing Leviathan, which was written both in New York and in Vermont - I think there were two summers in Vermont, in that house I wrote about in Winter Journal, that broken-down house... I was working in an out-building, a kind of shack, a tumble-down, broken-down mess of a place, and I had a green table. I just thought, "Well, is there a way to bring my life into the fiction I'm writing, will it make a difference?" And the fact is, it doesn't make any difference. It was a kind of experiment which couldn't fail.”

“Money is the driving force of Hand to Mouth, the lack of money, and all those true stories about strange things in The Red Notebook, coincidences and unlikely events, surprise, the unexpected.”

Stories Hands Force Events Strange Mouths Red Surprise Driving Unexpected Coincidence Unlikely Notebook Strange Things True Story Driving Force

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“I wrote Report from the Interior was that after I finished Winter Journal, I took a pause, and I realized there was more I wanted to say.”

Wanted Winter Finished I Realized Reports Pauses Journal Interiors

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“I don't like pictures in books. I feel that the pictures diminish the words, and the words diminish the pictures, and it doesn't work.”

Feels Book Diminish

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“I thought, "Well, I'm writing about early childhood, so maybe it would make sense to write about late childhood as well, early adulthood." Those were my thoughts, and this was how this crazy book [Winter Journal] was composed. I've never seen a book with pictures like at the end, pictures related to things you've read before.”

Writing Wells Book Ends Crazy Childhood Late Winter Make Sense Related Adulthood Journal My Thoughts Early Childhood

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“The childhood scenes [ in The Tree of Life] are tremendous. My favorite moment is when the mother levitate - for three seconds. Of course, this is how a child thinks of his mother.”

Thinking Children Moments Mother Three Courses Tree Childhood Scene My Favorite Seconds Tree Of Life

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“In Invisible there's a lot about childhood, the death of the brother and then the relationship between the brother and sister.”

Childhood Brother Invisible Brothers And Sisters

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