“I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through...” — Paul Auster Quote

“I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was about 30 that I got serious about writing prose. While I was writing poems, I would often divert myself by reading detective novels; I liked them.”

“You have to protect it too, you can't let just any stupid person take it and do something demoralizing with it. At the same time, I don't believe in being so rigid about controlling what happens either.”

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

“I'm really into the detective drama genre.”

“I read science, because to me, that's extremely exciting. It's like a great detective story, and it's happening right in front of us.”

“Nothing in the television show 'True Detective' was plagiarized.”