
First Draft - Best of 2021 George Saunders
First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing
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How to Read a Book
"You're kind of trying to get in that mine set, like you're trying to play yourself," he says. "To me, that's exactly equal to imagining a reader who's really smart and really bright, that's you." The author describes the process as starting with your perceptual apparatus: picking up the paper,. allowing your mind to react samely it would react to a book you picked up in a bookstore.
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