"I'm not thinking much about overall themes or preoccupations or anything like that. Instead I'm just trusting that, if I'm working hard, various notions and riffs and motifs and so on are very naturally suffusing the stories and the resulting book."

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George Saunders

#Book Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Stories Quotes

“My actual personality probably lies someplace between the two.”
“My dog was with me all the time. I talked to my dog. She was my best buddy. I shared all my secrets with her, but I don't think I every really tried jokes out with the dog.”
“This is a Happy Birthday card, Made with lots of love by me It's to a Very Important Parent A VIP... ...and you are she”
“Let every act be just, and proper, and beneficial.”

Source : Ann Leckie (2013). “Ancillary Justice: THE HUGO, NEBULA AND ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD WINNER”, p.118, Hachette UK
“I have a certain pool of subject matter that I like to write about, things that interest me: politics, religion, ecology, and relationships between men and women. And that's usually what I focus on.”
“Avarice, greed, concupiscence and so forth are all based on the mathematical truism that the more you get, the more you have. The remark of that it is more blessed to give than to receive is based on the human truth that the more you give away in love, the more you are. It is not just for the sake of other people that tells us to give rather than get, but for our own sakes too.”
“reality can be magnificent even when life is not.”
“If we understood what happens when we use the Word of God, we would use it oftener.”

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