i write a little every day without hope and without despair. Youn cuen, you think of it, hope and despair are optimism pessimism. I'm always optimistic. Yothose are pretty, kind of pretty roses, but they're going to die,. It's all just trying to get off the hook. O a struggle, i guess. So so far it's been kind of blissful. But som har, it's been incredibly fun.
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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