Even when I'm just sitting at my desk, I have to get up every twenty minutes or so and walk around, walk around, walk around, and then I can go back to the page. I can't just sit there for hours at a time. Language comes out of the body as much as the mind.
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 AusterI started out in life as a poet, I was only writing poetry all through my 20s, it wasn't until I was about 30 that I got serious about writing prose. While I was writing poems, I would often divert myself by reading detective novels, I liked them.
Paul AusterLate style gets simpler and shorter, and here, I'm getting more abundant as I get older!
Paul Auster