Each 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.

When I write, the story is always uppermost in my mind, and I feel that everything must be sacrificed to it. All elegant passages, all the curious details, all the so-called beautiful writing - if they are not truly relevant to what I am trying to say, then they have to go.

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

Paul Auster Quotes