RIP Paul Auster: Hear the Master of the Postmodern Page-Turner Discuss How He Became a Writer

I was eight years old. At that moment in my life, nothing was more important to me than baseball.

From that point on, it became a habit of mine never to leave the house without making sure I had a pencil in my pocket.

But it takes more than a pencil to become a writer. "The thing about doing this, which is unlike any other job, is that you have to give maximum effort, all the time," Auster says.

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