For Me, George Saunders Novel

A Writer's Duty Is To Register What It Is Like For Him Or Her To Be In The World.

Other People’s Words Are So Important. And Then Without Warning They Stop Being Important, Along With All Those Words Of Yours That Their Words Prompted You To Write. Much Of The Excitement Of A New Novel Lies In The Repudiation Of The One Written Before. Other People’s Words Are The Bridge You Use To Cross From Where You Were To Wherever You’re Going.

Anyone Over The Age Of Thirty Catching A Bus Can Consider Himself A Failure.

It Was A Kiss From The Past.

I Never Bought The Idea Of Individual Genius From Which The Novel Spews Forth. It's Always An Act Of Curation.