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In my studio, it is unkempt and unattractive. Once I'm in my work, I don't notice where I am.

- Paul Auster
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Those 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.

Those 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.

Becoming a writer is not a 'career decision' like becoming a doctor or a policeman. You don't choose it so much as get chosen, and once you accept the fact that you're not fit for anything else, you have to be prepared to walk a long, hard road for the rest of your days.

I'm generous. I give good tips. It's just - the way I live my life, ironically enough, is: I don't want anything. I'm not a consumer. I don't crave objects.

Those 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.

I never experiment with anything in my books. Experimentation means you don't know what you're doing.

It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the voice on the other end asking for someone he was not.

Don't be a writer; it's a terrible way to live your life. There's nothing to be gained from it but poverty and obscurity and solitude. So if you have a taste for all those things, which means that you really are burning to do it, then go ahead and do it. But don't expect anything from anybody.

The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly.

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In my studio, it is unkempt and unattractive. Once I'm in my work, I don't notice where I am.

In my studio, it is unkempt and unattractive. Once I'm in my work, I don't notice where I am.

In my studio, it is unkempt and unattractive. Once I'm in my work, I don't notice where I am.

In my studio, it is unkempt and unattractive. Once I'm in my work, I don't notice where I am.

In my studio, it is unkempt and unattractive. Once I'm in my work, I don't notice where I am.

In my studio, it is unkempt and unattractive. Once I'm in my work, I don't notice where I am.

In my studio, it is unkempt and unattractive. Once I'm in my work, I don't notice where I am.

In my studio, it is unkempt and unattractive. Once I'm in my work, I don't notice where I am.

In my studio, it is unkempt and unattractive. Once I'm in my work, I don't notice where I am.

In my studio, it is unkempt and unattractive. Once I'm in my work, I don't notice where I am.

In my studio, it is unkempt and unattractive. Once I'm in my work, I don't notice where I am.

In my studio, it is unkempt and unattractive. Once I'm in my work, I don't notice where I am.

In my studio, it is unkempt and unattractive. Once I'm in my work, I don't notice where I am.

In my studio, it is unkempt and unattractive. Once I'm in my work, I don't notice where I am.

In my studio, it is unkempt and unattractive. Once I'm in my work, I don't notice where I am.