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Whenever you talk about writing I think you have to remember that it all has a big question mark over it – every word has a big question mark over it.

George Saunders

I do find the values in A Christmas Carol significant. It is important not to be mean and stingy and not to give up love for money.
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Giving Important Mean Up
Positive human action is not only possible, but pervasive; human beings can improve and choose light and so on. And this is all happening.
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Action Humans Light
I want something a little more confident and more sure of the values that we’re defending, which are the old ones, love and empathy and patience and tolerance and civility. Not to get into politics or anything.
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Confident Defending Empathy Want
He was a father. That’s what a father does.Eases the burdens of those he loves. Saves the ones he loves from painful last images that might endure for a lifetime.
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Dad Day Ease Fathers
I read Rand and thought, “I want to be one of the earth movers, the scientific people who power the world. I don’t want to be one of these lisping liberal artsy leeches.” So I was working against my actual abilities.
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Leeches People World
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, which means that the reader will also know it – and so things have to be ramped up.
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Mean Stories Writing
At times, they’re so Right and I’m so Left, we agree.
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Agree Left Right
Every step was a victory. He had to remember that.
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Remember Steps Victory
I’m getting anxious, I’m getting more manic. Now, I’m an extreme case because I’m old and I’m overdoing it. But still, it’s really interesting that I can actually feel a change in my neurochemistry from this interaction with the technology.
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Extreme Interesting Neurochemistry
I’m not a natural criticizer – I prefer to like and praise and so on.
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Critizixe Natural Praise
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
Suddenly absurdism wasn’t an intellectual abstraction, it was actually realism. You could see the way that wealth was begetting wealth, wealth was begetting comfort – and that the cumulative effect of an absence of wealth was the erosion of grace.
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Erosion Grace Intellectual
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
To understand any plea for further consideration of a group you don’t know anything about to be some form of, quote, political correctness. These things are bubbling right under us.
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Consideration Groups Political
Whatever happens when we die, it would be really weird if it was what we had expected. Even if you were a lifelong Christian believer, it would be kind of weird if there actually were pearly gates.
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Christian Kind Process Writer
I’m fascinated with actors, and I’ve never quite understood the process.
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Actors Never Quit Process

Whenever you talk about writing I think you have to remember that it all has a big question mark over it – every word has a big question mark over it.

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