The ideal reader's the same, and I suppose this person has never had a face or a gender or an age. It's just some kind of unknown other who will be sympathetic and read each word carefully and understand what I'm writing about. I suppose every writer feels this.
Paul AusterNobody asks you to do this. The world out there is not panting after another novelist. We choose it
Paul AusterSomething happens, Blue thinks, and then it goes on happening forever. It can never be changed, can never be otherwise.
Paul Auster