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Story Quotes by George Saunders
- Each of us is born with a series of built-in confusions that are probably somehow Darwinian. These are: (1) we're central to the universe (that…
- Early on, a story's meaning and rationale seem pretty obvious, but then, as I write it, I realize that I know the meaning/rationale too well,…
- I wasted a lot of years working on my writing and very grandly saying, 'And now... My Novel!,' which would soon be reduced to a…
- To me, the writer's main job is to just make the story unscroll in such a way that the reader is snared - she's right…
- Back in 1992, I had my first story accepted by 'The New Yorker.'
- Chekhov - shall I be blunt? - is the greatest short story writer who ever lived.
- That seems to be the definition of 'novel' for me: a story that hasn't yet discovered a way to be brief.
- The artist's job, I think, is to be a conduit for mystery. To intuit it, and recognize that the story-germ has some inherent mystery in…
- When you read a short story, you come out a little more aware and a little more in love with the world around you. What…
- I think fiction isn't so good at being for or against things in general - the rhetorical argument a short story can make is only…
- So for me the approach has become to go into a story not really sure of what I want to say, try to find some…
- Why were we put here, so inclined to love, when end of our story = death? That harsh. That cruel. Do not like.
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