#thing

There's such a big buzz around boxing at the moment. Everything's happening and there's so much building up with a lot of young talent coming through. ↗

— Billy Joe Saunders

#big #boxing #building #buzz #coming

I'm always aware of writing around things I can't do, and I've come to think that that's actually what 'style' is - an avoidance of your deficiencies. ↗

— George Saunders

#always #around #avoidance #aware #come

To me, the writer's main job is to just make the story unscroll in such a way that the reader is snared - she's right there, seeing things happen and caring about them. And if you dedicate yourself to this job, the meanings more or less take care of themselves. That's the theory, anyway. ↗

— George Saunders

#anyway #care #caring #dedicate #happen

Early on, a story's meaning and rationale seem pretty obvious, but then, as I write it, I realize that I know the meaning/rationale too well, which means that the reader will also know it - and so things have to be ramped up. ↗

— George Saunders

#early #i #i write #know #meaning

I think fiction isn't so good at being for or against things in general - the rhetorical argument a short story can make is only actualized by the accretion of particular details, and the specificity of these details renders whatever conclusions the story reaches invalid for wider application. ↗

— George Saunders

#against #application #argument #being #conclusions

What a powerful thing to know: That one's own desires are mappable onto strangers; that what one finds in oneself will most certainly be found in The Other. ↗

— George Saunders

#desires #finds #found #know #most

Even when I was very depressed, I could hold on to something. It seems that I have always had that streak of gold that I could hold on to. ↗

— Michael Schenker

#could #depressed #even #gold #had

The first thing the federal government can do to help is get out of the way. ↗

— Bob Schaffer

#federal government #first #first thing #get #government

I just don't believe that you have to come in and insult people when you want to change things. ↗

— Sydney Schanberg

#change #change things #come #i #insult

My own reaction from a distance is that Pol Pot's demise as the leader of the Khmer Rouge was inevitable, and that his own paranoia did him in as much as anything else. ↗

— Sydney Schanberg

#demise #did #distance #else #him