For me, George Saunders novel [Lincoln in the Bardo] is about a problem of pain.
ZADIE SMITHOne thing you learn about the novel as a form is that it’s always smarter than you are.
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The greatest lie ever told about love is that it sets you free.
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The library was the place I went to find out what there was to know. It was absolutely essential.
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The secret to editing your work is simple: you need to become its reader instead of its writer.
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I cannot believe homosexuality is that much fun. Heterosexuality certainly is not.
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People profess to have certain political positions, but their conservatism or liberalism is really the least interesting thing about them.
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Rarely does one see a squirrel tremble.
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I’m very attracted to exile literature – particularly Nabokov – exactly because the idea of being away from home for any serious length of time is so inconceivable to me.
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Time is how you spend your love.
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I often worry that my idea of personhood is nostalgic, irrational, inaccurate.
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One thing you learn about the novel as a form is that it’s always smarter than you are.
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Make sure the lubricant is unscented. Don’t join fashionable ‘schools of thought.’ Read everything.
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You can feel bad… I mean, that’s not illegal.
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Full stories are as rare as honesty.
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Something in me was changed by Lincoln in the Bardo, and the great sublime/grotesque risk of [George Saunders’] ghosts was a part of it.
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…They cannot escape their history any more than you yourself can lose your shadow.
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