I never experiment with anything in my books. Experimentation means you don’t know what you’re doing. Paul Auster Read Quote
The book that convinced me I wanted to be a writer was ‘Crime and Punishment’. I put the thing down after reading it in a fever over two or three days… I said, ‘If this is what a book can be, then that is what I want to do.’ Paul Auster Read Quote
You see, the interesting thing about books, as opposed, say, to films, is that it’s always just one person encountering the book, it’s not an audience, it’s one to one. Paul Auster Read Quote
I don’t know if she should worry too much, I mean some of our greatest writers have had movies made of their books, lots of Hemingway novels were turned into movies, it doesn’t hurt the book. Paul Auster Read Quote
Each book I’ve done somehow finds its own unique form, a specific way it has to be written, and once I find it, I stick with it. Paul Auster Read Quote
Money’s important. Everyone cares about money. And when you don’t have money, money becomes the overriding obsession of your life. Paul Auster Read Quote
I’ve always written by hand. Mostly with a fountain pen, but sometimes with a pencil – especially for corrections. Paul Auster Read Quote
I was always very curious as a young man about why older writers who I met seemed so indifferent to what was going on, whereas I, in my 20s, was reading everything. Everything seemed important. But they were only interested in the writers they admired when they were young, and I didn’t understand it then, but now, now I understand it. Paul Auster Read Quote
How is it possible for someone who believes that the world was created in six days to have a rational conversation with me, who doesn’t believe that, about other possibilities? Paul Auster Read Quote
Chance is an element of life. What I try to do is study what I call the mechanics of reality as carefully as I can. Paul Auster Read Quote
