:: Paul Auster

Abstract expressionist (Observer) - Portrait-interview de Paul Auster.
"'Why do I do this?' he says. 'The only answer I can come up with is that somehow I think that by living my life as a writer, I am living my life to the fullest. Even if I have a day when I sit there crossing out sentences, tearing up pieces of paper and have advanced not one jot, I can still stand up from my chair and say, 'Well, I've given it my best'. And if you can say that at the end of every working day, you feel like there's some reason to go on living.'"

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