"Stories only happen to those who know how to tell them"

[Marie-claire]

goodreads has Paul Auster as the author of the quote: "Stories only happen to
those who know how to tell them." However, I believe it was Sartre that coined that phrase...in French, of course.

[rivka, Former Moderator]

I'm not finding the quote in our database. Link, please?

[Marie-claire]

rivka wrote: "I'm not finding the quote in our database. Link, please?"

http://www.goodreads.com/search/searc...

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Here's a source for it being an Auster quote. Sartre may well have said something similar; that doesn't keep this from being a quote of Auster's.