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It's funny with fiction - once you cut something, it hasn't happened anymore.


George Saunders


#cut #fiction #funny #happened #hasn

My habit would have been to veer towards the dark - to prove I was something; edgy, or maybe to prove that I was cognisant of the dark side. Now, with age and confidence, I can say, yeah, that's true, but I am cognisant of the fact that people can do things well. And can be more loving than you expect.


George Saunders


#am #been #confidence #dark #dark side

So for me the approach has become to go into a story not really sure of what I want to say, try to find some little seed crystal of interest, a sentence or an image or an idea, and as much as possible divest myself of any deep ideas about it. And then by this process of revision, mysteriously it starts to accrete meanings as you go.


George Saunders


#any #approach #become #crystal #deep

That seems to be the definition of 'novel' for me: a story that hasn't yet discovered a way to be brief.


George Saunders


#definition #discovered #hasn #me #novel

The universal human laws - need, love for the beloved, fear, hunger, periodic exaltation, the kindness that rises up naturally in the absence of hunger/fear/pain - are constant, predictable, reliable, universal, and are merely ornamented with the details of local culture.


George Saunders


#beloved #constant #culture #details #exaltation

When I write I know that I'm going to have to produce 40 percent more than I need.


George Saunders


#i #i write #know #more #need

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.


George Saunders


#average guy #bad #cant #culture #discourse

I love the TV show, and if you make a bad movie it means you've soiled it. Just like if we made an advert. We were offered so many times and I'd say, look, this is the good thing, and you can't compromise that, because then you compromise the integrity of the characters.


Jennifer Saunders


#bad #because #characters #compromise #good

They have become part of us in that if we get dressed up as them, we don't actually have to have a script. You can just become them. You just become nervy.


Jennifer Saunders


#become #dressed #get #just #part

What it all boils down to for me is having the enthusiasm to do something for enjoyment and being stimulated by what's around you. That's what photography does for me.


Graeme Le Saux


#being #boils #does #down #enjoyment






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