How I Became a Writer - Paul Auster

The exceptional matter in the process of writing, whatever its type, poetry or story or otherwise, is that you actually lose yourself through complete immersion in the work you write, and this is very good except that you do not feel it and do not realize it fully. I mean that the writer may engage in writing until he becomes unaware of his personal feelings regardless of what he writes. In this case, the writer is deeply immersed in the inner music of the work he composes and is united with it away from any other emotional state. I think that writing is a form of musical composition of sounds. Therefore, and for me, since the paragraph is the unit of composition in the novel work, the poetic line is the unit of composition in the poem, and accordingly, I work on the paragraph until I feel that it has matured and possesses suitable musical rhythms, perfect balance, and moments of suspense that are skillfully unexpected. William Styron, a renowned American novelist, began his life as a translator of French literature before establishing a remarkable path with solid works, translated into many languages. Styron received many awards, most notably the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award.