I believe that every artist, in one way or another, is a wounded person. It's not natural to make art.
Paul AusterThose of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story, when our mother or father would sit down beside us in the semi-dark and read from a book of fairy tales.
Paul AusterThere are two kinds of typical days. There's the typical day when I'm writing a novel, and there's the typical day when I'm not.
Paul AusterWhat if I had been born during a war and I lived in an occupied city, and people were being taken out and shot every day? Everything would be different - even after the war ended, my future would be very different. Look at what these poor people in Aleppo are going through. The children, the ones who survive, are going to be absolutely altered by what they live through, and you and I, luckily, have never had to deal with that.
Paul Auster