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George Saunders on REVISION and CAUSALITY
We understand a story’s meaning, in part, by tracking its causality, and a story’s power stems from our sense that its causality is truthful, which is to say, that its internal logic is solid.
from A Swim in a Pond in the Rain by George Saunders
Alex Dobrenko added
- Over the years I’ve had some very talented students who wrote these big novels in which the water never boiled. They were, essentially, entire books of exposition.
from Boiling Water by George Saunders
George Saunders on escalation
- everything starts to matter because a context has arisen; expectations arise.
from Boiling Water by George Saunders
George Saunders on escalation