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Stories, as much as we like to talk about them, retrospectively, as emanations of theme or worldview or intention, occur primarily as technical objects when they're being written. Or at least they do for me. They're the result of thousands of decisions made at speed during revision. ↗

— George Saunders

#being #decisions #during #intention #least

The artist's job, I think, is to be a conduit for mystery. To intuit it, and recognize that the story-germ has some inherent mystery in it, and sort of midwife that mystery into the story in such a way that it isn't damaged in the process, and may even get heightened or refined. ↗

— George Saunders

#conduit #damaged #even #get #heightened

When you read a short story, you come out a little more aware and a little more in love with the world around you. What I want is to have the reader come out just 6 percent more awake to the world. ↗

— George Saunders

#awake #aware #come #i #just

I'd very much like to create my own style as a photographer, even if it's just for myself. ↗

— Graeme Le Saux

#even #i #just #like #much

The centuries last passed have also given the taste important extension; the discovery of sugar, and its different preparations, of alcoholic liquors, of wine, ices, vanilla, tea and coffee, have given us flavors hitherto unknown. ↗

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

#also #centuries #coffee #different #discovery

Sometimes I talk to religious people about my column or what I do, and I ask them to, you know, read 20 or 30 of them and then come tell me that the message at the heart of every column isn't, 'Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.' In every possible sense. ↗

— Dan Savage

#ask #column #come #do unto others #every

Fox would hire me in a minute. And believe it or not, CNN would, too. ↗

— Michael Savage

#cnn #fox #hire #me #minute

Not that I've always loved the movie when they finally come out, or if they ever come out-because many of them don't come out-but I've gotten to work with really good story editors and stuff like that. ↗

— John Sayles

#come #editors #ever #finally #good

On the stage, you alone hold the key, and on the night you have to trust that the director has inspired you enough to take the material and run with it. ↗

— Greta Scacchi

#director #enough #hold #inspired #key

With a theatre audience there's always the additional sense of a sustained challenge of which I'm acutely aware and for which you need to have the tools ready - your voice, physicality, brain. ↗

— Greta Scacchi

#additional #always #audience #aware #brain