Paul Auster

' But there's no question,' he went on, ' no question that the man could write. I read the book more than two weeks ago and it's been with me ever since. I can't get it out of my head. It keeps coming back to me and always at the strangest moments. Stepping out of the shower, walking down the street, crawling into bed at night - whenever I'm not consciously thinking about anything. That doesn't happen very often, you know. You read so many books on this job that they all tend to blur together. But Fanshawe's book stands out. There's something powerful about it, and the oddest thing is that I don't even know what it is. '