As a poet or a novelist or a painter, you are pushing yourself all the time, always looking for a new way to approach something, challenging yourself and never, never trying to write the same book twice.
Paul AusterSome things get written more quickly than others, but I can't really measure degrees of difficulty.
Paul AusterThe pen will never be able to move fast enough to write down every word discovered in the space of memory. Some things have been lost forever, other things will perhaps be remembered again, and still other things have been lost and found and lost again. There is no way to be sure of any this.
Paul AusterWriting makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing.
Paul Auster