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When I'm explaining something to you, if I'm being long-winded, and twisty in a non-productive way, I could make you feel vaguely insulted. And you'd have a right to be.


George Saunders


#could #explaining #feel #i #insulted

I've had the thought that a person's 'artistic vision' is really just the cumulative combination of whatever particular stances he has sincerely occupied during his creative life - even if some of those might appear contradictory.


George Saunders


#artistic #combination #contradictory #creative #creative life

It seems to me a worthy goal: try to create a representation of consciousness that's durable and truthful, i.e., that accounts, somewhat, for all the strange, tiny, hard-to-articulate, instantaneous, unwilled things that actually go on in our minds in the course of a given day, or even a given moment.


George Saunders


#actually #consciousness #course #create #day

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

Sometimes I think fiction exists to model the way God might think of us, if God had the time and inclination to do so.


George Saunders


#fiction #god #had #i #i think

We have that illusion that we are 'deciding' what to make a character do, in order to 'convey our message' or something like that. But, at least in my experience, you are often more like a river-rafting guide who's been paid a bonus to purposely steer your clients into the roughest possible water.


George Saunders


#bonus #character #clients #convey #deciding

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

No, sometimes we just have to take liberties because the idea was so good. I wish we'd just gone with the idea that Patsy had been a man. It would have been fantastic.


Jennifer Saunders


#been #fantastic #gone #good #had






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