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March 7, 2017

Arts

What Writers Really Do When They Write

“You revise your reader up, in your imagination, with every pass. You keep saying to yourself: ‘No, she’s smarter than that. Don’t dishonour her with that lazy prose or that easy notion.’ And in revising your reader up, you revise yourself up too.”

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Saunders on the Longform Podcast

George Saunders The Guardian Mar 2017 15min Permalink