With a computer, you make your changes on the screen and then you print out a clean copy. With a typewriter, you can't get a clean manuscript unless you start again from scratch. It's an incredibly tedious process. Paul Auster cleancomputercopy share on social
I think it's a very good thing to leave your country and look at it from afar. Paul Auster afarcountrygood Change image and share on social
The funny thing is that I feel close to all my characters. Deep, deep inside them all. Paul Auster characterclosedeep Change image and share on social
The kind of fiction I'm trying to write is about telling the truth. Paul Auster fictionkindtell Change image and share on social
I woke up one day and thought: 'I want to write a book about the history of my body.' I could justify talking about my mother because it was in her body that my body began. Paul Auster beginbodybook Change image and share on social
What keeps me up at night? Anxiety. Anxiety, the inability to go to sleep, it's quite literally that. Paul Auster anxietyinabilityliterally Change image and share on social
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 bookconvincecrime share on social
Changing your mind is probably one of the most beautiful things people can do. And I've changed my mind about a lot of things over the years. Paul Auster beautifulchangehave Change image and share on social
I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come back, I needed some breathing room. I'd already been translating French poetry, I'd been to Paris once before and liked it very much, and so I just went. Paul Auster americaawhileback share on social
I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn't think I could do anything else. So I read and read and wrote short stories and dreamed of escape. Paul Auster agedreamescape Change image and share on social
