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One of the ways that we cope with anxiety is by over planning and over controlling. If we know where it’s going to, we can just relax and do it.

George Saunders

Compassion doesn’t have to be weak or enabling; it can also be quite bold.
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Compassion Enabling Weak
I actually believe that a lot of what people call originality has to do with persistence in the craft.
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Believe People Persistence
Goodbye. I am leaving because I am bored.
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Crazy Goodbye Mad
In the moment of reading, the writer comes up to the surface and the reader comes up to the surface and they kiss, like two fish. That actually does happen.
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Actually Kissing Reading Two
All along, my mantra was: Don’t write unless it contributes to the emotion, and do anything you do in service of the emotion only.
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Contribute Emotion Service Writing
When I think about what fiction does morally, I’m happier thinking of a person full of multiplicities – sort of fragmented.
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Fiction Fragmented Thinking
If you’re going to make an emotional connection with somebody, whether it’s in the story or in the world, there’s a certain amount of self-acceptance that is required.
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Acceptance Emotional Self
I have nothing. My model is I have nothing figured out, and I’m starting with some little nugget and hoping that it will talk back to me enough to let it grow.
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Enough Littles Nuggets
I’m from a pretty working-class background, and I really worked hard in my life to eradicate those parts of myself that were stupidly trapped in that world.Those of us who come up that way made a series of choices to benefit ourselves and make ourselves more generous and open.
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Benefits Choices Class
I think something that I can’t name about our media has made us move away from that kind of specificity and that kind of curiosity.
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Moving Names Thinking
I often wonder if there are certain areas of real life that are roped off, with a sign saying, “Art, don’t come in here.” But that’s maybe a deeper question.
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Art Real Wonder
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
All traditions are also full of meanness for the sake of meanness.
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Meanness Sake Tradition
America, to me, should be shouting all the time, a bunch of shouting voices, most of them wrong, some of them nuts, but please, not just one droning glamourous reasonable voice.
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America Nuts Voice
My stories, I can understand them as a little toy that you wind up and you put it on the floor and it just goes under the coach. That I get. Beyond that, I’m a little lost.
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Littles Stories Wind
An artist’s job is to be interested in things as they are.
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Artist Interested Jobs

One of the ways that we cope with anxiety is by over planning and over controlling. If we know where it’s going to, we can just relax and do it.

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