Paul Auster quote

[n3cr0phelia]

In one of his books, Auster quotes the psychiatrist Oliver Sachs's belief that it is a sign of sanity to make an internal narrative of your life. Indeed, as Auster knows, although he has never been in therapy himself, the construction or reconstruction of such a narrative is the premise of psychoanalytic healing. When a writer makes up fictional

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[decadence_fleur]

Yeah, I think Brian Molko said it best on the Meds DVD that his music is just his way of trying to understand life and what's happening, and if he was content with everything he would probably be writing gospel music or something more ethereal in nature.
There is a lot of truth there, the more I write, the better I seem to understand why things are the way they are.

[n3cr0phelia]

Haha, gotta love Molko.

I'm pretty sure I will never understand the way things are... the more I write, the more... notebooks I collect.
And the more I read, the less I feel I really know.

[ioyoko]

Ale te quiero, tienes telefono nuevo?
Quiero hablar contigo, espero que estes bien.

[n3cr0phelia]

Perdon, es que anoche cuando me llamaste estaba escribiendo un trabajo, me amaneci... y anoche me llamaste mientras estaba en clase, salgo a las 7:30, y cuando llegue se formo un revolu aqui en casa, despues te cuento. Te llamo hoy por la tardecita.

[malphas69]

"reality is what you can get away with"
~RAW

[styggian]

I like this.

[margherita_luna]

i believe that writing fiction is important to keep one sane, as much as writing about one's real life. Fiction can be a contemplative excersise, were there is an analysis of the world around the person through the invention of another world. That's what i think, yup.

[arsenicbuffet]

Everything was fiction at one point. Steam engines, virus vaccines, all were once nothing but dreams until mankind made them a reality. I've always been of the opinion that the imaginative, the transcendentalists, the people who are assumed to have something cranially "wrong" because they're put to sleep by the monotone filmstrips of reality, are the ones who ultimately may end up shaping our future. Books like Fahrenheit 451 are frowned upon these days, but I wonder what the daily gossip was about those books when they were first published? Did anyone know, did anyone predict that so many of the ideals and inventions put to words by writers like Bradbury and Asimov and Crichton would eventually become real?

See also: I'm in school, and bored something awful... and I needed to write something to keep me awake, so I made you my victim.

Peace, y0. ♥

[n3cr0phelia]

Awww!
Hahaha, awesome.

I didn't think of that upon reading that quote... I think he meant it in a more self-centered way, from what I read, most of his work is autobiographical in one way or another, but you have a very good point.