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Then Quotes by George Saunders
- I tend to foster drama via bleakness. If I want the reader to feel sympathy for a character, I cleave the character in half, on…
- More and more these days what I find myself doing in my stories is making a representation of goodness and a representation of evil and…
- 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…
- If you think of a work of fiction as a kind of scale model of the world, then the positive valences - where things turn…
- We try, we fail, we posture, we aspire, we pontificate - and then we age, shrink, die, and vanish.
- 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…
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- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger. — Richard Bach
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