I Haven't Got Ther Yet, Do You Think That You Will?

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"It's never the case that i go, i love life, d and il," he says. "You're hoping that if you'll work it hard enough, it'll sort of inadvertently put on the page a complexity and an affection that you actually feel." The writer has had some success with his stories but is still trying to find out whether or not they will be accepted as good works. He describes himself as 'a little bit negative minded in a lot of ways'

George Saunders is the author of eleven books. His latest is A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life.

”I really have so much affection for being alive. I really enjoy it. And yet, I’m a little negative minded in a lot of ways too, like I really think things tend to be fucked up. ... To get that on the page—to sufficiently praise the loveliness of the world without being a sap, and also lacerate the world for being so goddamn mean—to do those in the same story would be a great aspiration. And I haven’t gotten there yet.”

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