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Quotes
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'I know Paul Auster considers it a day well spent if he finishes 100 words.' Peter Wild of Bookmunch
'One of America's coolest writers...' NZ Listener, New Zealand (via Kimberley Bartlett of Allen and Unwin)
'He's the most compelling writer I've ever come across.' Gavin Rossdale of Bush Newsweek
'Who would be your favourite passenger?
Paul Auster is my favourite writer and I'm sure he'd be a very interesting person to share a journey with.' Cornelia Parker - 'Me and My Motor' Guardian
'I've only ever serial-read Paul Auster' Jonathan Glazer 'My Media' Guardian
'Good looks are very helpful. Take someone like Paul Auster. Bookshops will love to have him for a signing because he's startlingly good-looking. Publishing has become such a packaging business that it's the same as if you're a rock star.' Guardian
"...material that operates like the shorthand summary of a Paul Auster novel," he says, and, in a sentence that can sum up the entire genre, "Projected mysteries that become actual." Nicholas Lezard Guardian
'Paul Auster in turn took him to see the Mets, 'because that's his orientation'. ' Salman Rushdie about baseball.
"The show after Karen Finley was Guillermo Gomez-Pena. I remember introducing them both and going to some neighborhood bar afterwards, going for cocktails at the Circle K with Paul Auster after his reading. That was before he had really made it big. There were just so many moments of listening to exquisite poems and seeing great theater and feeling incredibly satisfied." Roberto Bedoya SFGate.com