“Le paragraphe est la pierre angulaire. En poésie c'est le vers, et en prose c'est le paragraphe, pour moi. Chaque paragraphe est un bloc autonome qui déborde sur le prochain bloc autonome. Je travaille sur un paragraphe, je le remanie encore et encore, jusqu'à ce que je le considère satisfaisant.”
documentaire "Paul Auster, le jeu du hasard" ( de Sabine Lidl, 2018 )
En anglais : " he paragraph is the building block.
In poetry it's the line, for me, in prose it's the paragraph.
Each paragraph is a self-contained work that spills over into the next.
I work on a paragraph and work on it and work on it until it reasonably seems ok.
And then, because I think there's nothing more I can do, and also because, if I left it I won't be able to read it, because the writing is so small. I turn and type up the paragraph on the typewriter."