Is There a Difference Between Time and Revision?

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i think it has something to do with, ok, having spent enough of your time in text that you lose your ego about it. The truth is always there, and we just have to figure out different waysof bringing the b s out of ourselves quicker. There is a certain type of person who really gets it that the writer and he editor are working in service of the piece. That's when you find that atis gold. i've had yet, i've worked with andy ward and derbor treasman, and theyllbufor to nosemante.

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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