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Your evening longread: Author Paul Auster on the question 'why write?'
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Paul Auster asks ‘why write?’ and answers using examples from his own life.
(The New Yorker, approx 16 mins reading time)
He had to have been all of twenty-four years old, but I couldn’t bring myself to pronounce his first name. His response to my question was brusque but amiable. “Sure, kid, sure,” he said. “You got a pencil?” He was so full of life, I remember, so full of youthful energy, that he kept bouncing up and down as he spoke. I didn’t have a pencil, so I asked my father if I could borrow his. He didn’t have one, either. Nor did my mother. Nor, as it turned out, did any of the other grownups.
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