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Character is that sum total of moments we can't explain.

~George Saunders

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There might be a different model for a literary community that's quicker, more real-time, and involves more spontaneity.

~George Saunders

Topics: Community Different Involves Literary Might Model More Quicker Spontaneity

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

~George Saunders

Topics: Anymore Cut Fiction Funny Happened Once Something You

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Back in 1992, I had my first story accepted by 'The New Yorker.'

~George Saunders

Topics: Accepted Back First Had New New Yorker Story Yorker

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A John Updike is a once-in-a-generation phenomenon, if that generation is lucky: so comfortable in so many genres, the same lively, generous intelligence suffusing all he did.

~George Saunders

Topics: Comfortable Did Generation Generous Genres He Intelligence John Lively Lucky Many Phenomenon Same

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I tend to foster drama via bleakness. If I want the reader to feel sympathy for a character, I cleave the character in half, on his birthday. And then it starts raining. And he's made of sugar.

~George Saunders

Topics: Birthday Character Drama Feel Foster Half He His Made Raining Reader Starts Sugar Sympathy Tend Then Via Want

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I'm finding, as I get older, that I'm not much of a believer in redemption. I mean, I believe in redemption in real life - redemption does happen, and it's cool when it does - but I find myself getting leery of my desire for it in stories (especially my own).

~George Saunders

Topics: Believe Believer Cool Desire Does Find Finding Get Getting Happen Life Mean Much My Own Myself Older Own Real Real Life Redemption Stories I Believe I Believe In

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I was a big and un-ironic fan of Dear Abby when I was a kid in Chicago. I think I sort of internalized her. So I have this inner Abby: cranky, proper, folksy yet scathing, with a beehive hairdo. But that's my issue.

~George Saunders

Topics: Beehive Big Chicago Cranky Dear Fan Hairdo Her Inner Issue Kid Proper Sort Think I Think

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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

Topics: Absence Beloved Constant Culture Details Exaltation Fear Human Hunger Kindness Laws Local Love Merely Naturally Need Periodic Predictable Reliable Rises Universal Up

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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

Topics: Certainly Desires Finds Found Know Most Oneself Onto Other Own Powerful Powerful Thing Strangers Thing Will

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: December 2nd, 1958

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