Paul Auster Quotes About House

Quotes about: House

• It became a habit of mine never to leave the house without a pencil in my pocket.

  Paul Auster

  House, Pockets, Habit

  Paul Auster (2011). “Collected Prose”, p.437, Faber & Faber

• For example, when I was writing Leviathan, which was written both in New York and in Vermont - I think there were two summers in Vermont, in that house I wrote about in Winter Journal, that broken-down house... I was working in an out-building, a kind of shack, a tumble-down, broken-down mess of a place, and I had a green table. I just thought, "Well, is there a way to bring my life into the fiction I'm writing, will it make a difference?" And the fact is, it doesn't make any difference. It was a kind of experiment which couldn't fail.

  Paul Auster

  Summer, New York, Writing

  Interview with Nathalie Cochoy and Sophie Vallas, transatlantica.revues.org. March 2014.

• Memory and the imagination are almost identical. It's the same place in the brain and the same thing is happening. When you think about your own life, there are no memories without place. You are always situated somewhere. I think the imagination - the narrative imagination at least - situates you in a specific space when you start to think of a story. I often use places I know. I put my characters inside rooms and houses that I'm familiar with - sometimes the houses of my parents or grandparents or previous apartments I've lived in.

  Paul Auster

  Memories, Character, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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