Paul Auster - Story Quotes

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But lost chances are as much a part of life as chances taken, and a story cannot dwell on what might have been.

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We grow older, but we do not change. We become more sophisticated, but at bottom we continue to resemble our young selves, eager to listen to the next story and the next, and the next.

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As long as there's one person to believe it, there's no story that can't be true.

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When I write, the story is always uppermost in my mind, and I feel that everything must be sacrificed to it. All elegant passages, all the curious details, all the so-called beautiful writing - if they are not truly relevant to what I am trying to say, then they have to go.

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That's what makes his story so impossible,.... Because he's told me the truth.

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When a person is lucky enough to live inside a story, to live inside an imaginary world, the pains of this world disappear. For as long as the story goes on, reality no longer exists.

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The pictures do not lie, but neither do they tell the whole story. They are merely a record of time passing, the outward evidence.

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When I start, I have a feeling for the characters, and maybe the shape of the story. Sometimes I might even have the last sentence in mind. But, no book I've ever written has ever ended the way I thought it would. Characters disappear, others come forward. Once you start writing, everything changes.

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I think that sense of unreality inspired me to write the story within the book that [August] Brill tells himself, one of the stories he tells himself.

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