All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to make money however I could to keep myself going in some modest way, and I didn't need much, I was unmarried at the time, no children.
Paul AusterI never would have thought of that word, "hospitality." I settle into the rhythm of my steps.
Paul AusterHe knew that his wings could ignite at any moment, but the closer he came to touching the fire, the more he sensed that he was fulfilling his destiny. As he put it in his journal that night: If I mean to save my life, then I have to come within an inch of destroying it.
Paul AusterEach 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