Memory and the imagination are almost identical. It's the same place in the brain and the same thing is happening. When you think about your own life, there are no memories without place. You are always situated somewhere. I think the imagination - the narrative imagination at least - situates you in a specific space when you start to think of a story. I often use places I know. I put my characters inside rooms and houses that I'm familiar with - sometimes the houses of my parents or grandparents or previous apartments I've lived in.
You have to really have a taste for being alone to be a writer. - Paul Auster
You have to really have a taste for being alone to be a writer.
- Paul Auster
We find ourselves only by looking to what we’re not. - Paul Auster
We find ourselves only by looking to what we’re not.
Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever. - Paul Auster
Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.
Memory is the space in which a thing happens for a second time. - Paul Auster
Memory is the space in which a thing happens for a second time.
No one was to blame for what happened, but that does not make it any less difficult to accept. It was all a matter of missed connections, bad timing,… - Paul Auster
No one was to blame for what happened, but that does not make it any less difficult to accept. It was all a matter of missed connections, bad timing,…
Novels are fictions and therefore they tell lies, but through those lies every novelist attempts to tell the truth about the world. - Paul Auster
Novels are fictions and therefore they tell lies, but through those lies every novelist attempts to tell the truth about the world.
People say you have to travel to see the world. Sometimes I think that if you just stay in one place and keep your eyes open, you're going to see jus… - Paul Auster
People say you have to travel to see the world. Sometimes I think that if you just stay in one place and keep your eyes open, you're going to see jus…
What matters is not how well you can avoid trouble, but how you cope with trouble when it comes. - Paul Auster
What matters is not how well you can avoid trouble, but how you cope with trouble when it comes.
It always stimulates me to discover new examples of my own prejudice and stupidity, to realize that I don't know half as much as I think I do. - Paul Auster
It always stimulates me to discover new examples of my own prejudice and stupidity, to realize that I don't know half as much as I think I do.
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