I’ve always wanted to write energetic, atypical sentences, i.e., sentences that were not normal or bland.
GEORGE SAUNDERSThe 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.
More George Saunders Quotes
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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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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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Your first responsibility is to yourself and to your own goodness of heart.
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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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In my case, when I am trying to be “kind” I often default in a sort of toothless loving-all stance that is, actually, not kind, because it is not truthful.
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A culture’s ability to understand the world and itself is critical to its survival. But today we are led into the arena of public debate by seers whose main gift is their ability to compel people to continue to watch them.
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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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It seems to me that there are certain thoughts and vignettes and attitudes that I have always had the desire to represent.
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With nonfiction, I go in trying to be really honest about what my preconceptions are.
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What’s really baffling to me is the way that the technology has risen up to help us become more materialistic.
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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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There’s a really nice moment in the life of a piece of writing where the writer starts to get a feeling of it outgrowing him – or he starts to see it having a life of its own that doesn’t have anything to do with his ego or his desire to ‘be a good writer’.
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I was a big and un-ironic fan of Dear Abby when I was a kid in Chicago. I think I sort of internalized her. So I have this inner Abby: cranky, proper, folksy yet scathing, with a beehive hairdo. But that’s my issue.
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Every step was a victory. He had to remember that.
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I think people have come to expect that in artistic representation; that every work of art should be a work of extravagant hope.
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