Posted by noa on June 3, 2003, at 20:55:46
In reply to Re: Burroughs and Tangier » Snoozy, posted by wendy b. on June 2, 2003, at 23:12:02
Paul Auster has a great little anecdote in "Why Write?" (part of "The Red Notebook") about his chance encounter with Willie Mays when he was 8 y.o., asking for an autograph, not having a pencil (no one present had a pencil), and having the Say Hey Kid say, "Sorry, Kid. Ain't got no pencil? Can't get no autograph". All of which led to Auster, so he claims, habitually carrying a pencil with him at all times, from that day forward. Which, he says, is how HE became a writer.
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