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George Saunders

The one thing fiction and non-fiction writing have in common for me is that sense of trying to get the sentences to be minimal but at the same time be a little overfull – to encourage them to do a kind of poetic work.
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Fiction Overall Same Time Trying Writing
My heart goes out to him. Sort of. Because empathy depends on how you’ve spent your day.
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Empathy Heart
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
The great American denial riff is that you can do whatever you like and you always triumph at the end. The world is saying no, you can do what you like, but there are consequences. And maturity is to be able to turn to the consequences and accept them.
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Denial Maturity Triumph
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
I’ve always wanted to write energetic, atypical sentences, i.e., sentences that were not normal or bland.
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Energetic Normal Writing
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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Remember Thinking Writing
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
I understand what something short should be like. I understand beauty in that form. If I start extending, somehow I kind of lose my bearings.
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Form Kind Should
Twitter is a deliberate abstention. Somehow I hate the idea of there always being, in the back of my mind, this little voice saying: ‘Oh, I should tweet about this.’
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Hate Ideas Voice
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
The greatest thing about writing a book is that at first it’s all inchoate, but the more you work on it, the more the book teaches you its internal rules.
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Book Firsts Rules Writing
Humor is what happens when we’re told the truth quicker and more directly than we’re used to.
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Happens Used Writing
An artist’s job is to be interested in things as they are.
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Artist Interested Jobs
Your first responsibility is to yourself and to your own goodness of heart.
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Firsts Heart Responsibility
When something really bad is going on in a culture, the average guy doesn’t see it. He can’t. He’s average and is surrounded by and immersed in the cant and discourse of the status quo.
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Average Culture Guy

At times, they’re so Right and I’m so Left, we agree.

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