Ending Projects, Ending Creative Session

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Babaa: When i get to a place where i'm blocked, you know. And when it's really difficult, not in the kind of fun difficult, but like, truly self doubting,. I try to say, well, ok, that's the piece is telling me something again, if i listen to it, i can solve it. You know, it's almost like if your car isn't starting, it's still a car and, you know, if you had the right tools and the right mind and the right openers, you could fix it. So for me, it's, i tell myself the story that the bigger the obstruction, the bigger the pay off

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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