Autobiographical writings, essays, interviews, various other things... All the non-fiction prose I wanted to keep, that was the idea behind this collected volume, which came out about few years ago. I didn't think of Winter Journal, for example, as an autobiography, or a memoir. What it is is a literary work, composed of autobiographical fragments, but trying to attain, I hope, the effect of music.
Paul AusterI walk around the world like a ghost, and sometimes I question whether I even exist. Whether I've ever existed at all.
Paul AusterI am very scared at the beginning of each book, because I've never written it before. I feel I have to teach myself how to do it.
Paul AusterOur lives don't really belong to us, you see -- they belong to the world, and in spite of our efforts to make sense of it, the world is a place beyond our understanding.
Paul AusterWriting is a solitary business. It takes over your life. In some sense, a writer has no life of his own. Even when heโs there, heโs not really there.
Paul Auster