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The Active Voice: George Saunders thinks you should watch your mind

The Active Voice

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Are You Holding Out on Me?

"I try to remember the times when something I wrote wasn't as good as it should have been and it got published," he says. "You're sort of always looking at the story like, are you holding out on me? You know, I love you." Is that a genuine heartfelt connection you're having with the story or is this a system for you to trick yourself into doing the thing that makes the story great? "When I'm, when I've got a story, it's almost done. It feels personal", she says.

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