Let me tell you, there's no better medicine than a friendly card game for sloughing off the cares of a workaday world.
Paul AusterFor some reason, all my characters come to me with their names attached to them. I never have to search for the names.
Paul AusterMy characters, I find them as I'm writing. It's quite incredible how fully realized they are in my mind, how many details I know about each of them.
Paul AusterWe construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate as personalities are the ones who lose that thread.
Paul Auster