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Paul Auster on his writing process (video)

American writer Paul Auster on his writing process, and making art.

“Now it’s also instinctive I’m barely aware of what I’m doing but at the same time I don’t write fast and I’ve never written fast. For me a good day’s work, and this is eight hours of work, a good day’s work is if I have one typed page at the end. One or two pages is great, three is a miracle. You know it happens maybe four times a year that I can do three pages but if I get the one page done I feel satisfied.”

It’s OK

“Once a photographer has learned a few ‘tricks’, they are presented with a choice: keep chasing gimmicks or formulas, or look deeper. It’s OK to be lost. It’s OK not to know what you’re doing. It’s OK to fail. It’s absolutely fine to feel insecure about your work. In fact, all of these things are very cool because they state very loudly that a person is trying, striving, exploring and searching in a very personal sense…. call it what you will.”

Thomas Stanworth

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