The best thing that ever happened to me is that nothing happened in writing. I ended up working for engineering…
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If death is in the room, it’s pretty interesting. But I would also say that I’m interested in getting myself…
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We have that illusion that we are ‘deciding’ what to make a character do, in order to ‘convey our message’…
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George Saunders (born December 2, 1958) is an American writer of short stories, essays, novellas, children’s books, and novels. His…
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When I was a kid, I took ‘The Brady Bunch’ and ‘The Partridge Family’ very seriously. It was a world…
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It’s funny with fiction – once you cut something, it hasn’t happened anymore. George Saunders
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The cool parts – the parts that have won Dubai its reputation as ‘the Vegas of the Middle East’ or…
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The word ‘funny’ is a bit like the word ‘love’ – we don’t have enough words to describe the many…
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The universal human laws – need, love for the beloved, fear, hunger, periodic exaltation, the kindness that rises up naturally…
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If you haven’t read you don’t have the voice. The lack of voice eliminates experience. George Saunders
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