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When you talk about a reader being emotionally moved, a feeling of empathy, I think that comes out of that line-by-line respect for reader. That’s actually where it all comes from.

George Saunders

Goodbye. I’m leaving because I’m bored.
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Bored Goodbye Leaving
I’m very happy – if I can do even a little bit of work to get the short story out more, I’m thrilled.
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Littles Short Stories Story
Goodbye. I am leaving because I am bored.
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Crazy Goodbye Mad
The one thing about A Christmas Carol that always bothers me is that Cratchit is so sweet and perfect. He’s like an Ivy League kid who just is labeled “poor.” He doesn’t have any bad habits. He’s never cranky with his kids.
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Kids League Sports Sweet
I know what it feels like to be in that middle and lower-middle class, and feel like the culture is passing you by; it translates into a great sense of personal frustration that can then morph into political frustration.
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Class Frustration Political
The thing I’ve discovered that is a help is that there isn’t a simple virtue or a simple vice. They’re always connected. If you have Tendency A, that you loathe, you can almost be sure that Tendency B, which you love, is somehow connected to it.
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Love Simple Vices
Social media sometimes feels like a vehicle for one-dimensional sniping, more than true criticism.
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Criticism Media Sniping
I think kindness is a sort of gateway virtue – having that simple aspiration can get you into deep water very quickly – in a good way.
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Kindness Simple Thinking
Developing our sympathetic compassion is not only possible but the only reason for us to be here on earth.
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Compassion Earth Reason
I started out in engineering. I was a geophysical engineer. Throughout the course of my life I’ve done a lot of strange jobs, and the effect has been to make me think a little more skeptically about our capitalist society.
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Engineering Jobs Thinking
So here’s something I know to be true, although it’s a little corny, and I don’t quite know what to do with it.
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Advice Corny Littles
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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Harsh Life Stories
For me, when I’m coming up to a place where I have to make somebody up, it’s almost like driving and taking your hands off the wheel.
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Driving Hands Wheels
I think in our time, you know, so much of the information we get is pre-polarized. Fiction has a way of reminding us that we actually are very similar in our emotions and our neurology and our desires and our fears, so I think it’s a nice way to neutralize that polarization.
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Desire Nice Thinking
If a writer understands his work as something that originates with him but then, with any luck, gets away from him, then what he needs is someone who can grasp the potential of the piece and lead him to that higher ground.
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Ground Higher Luck Needs
I’m fascinated with actors, and I’ve never quite understood the process.
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Actors Never Quit Process

When you talk about a reader being emotionally moved, a feeling of empathy, I think that comes out of that line-by-line respect for reader. That’s actually where it all comes from.

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When you talk about a reader being emotionally moved, a feeling of empathy, I think that comes out of that line-by-line respect for reader. That’s actually where it all comes from.

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