George Saunders Quotes About Planning

• ...There is no end to the making and selling of things there is no end to the making and selling of things there is no end... Man, it occurs to me, is a joyful, buying-and-selling piece of work. I have been wrong, dead wrong, when I've decried consumerism. Consumerism is what we are. It is, in a sense, a holy impulse. A human being is someone who joyfully goes in pursuit of things, brings them home, then immediately starts planning how to get more.

  George Saunders

  Home, Men, Pieces

• One of the ways that we cope with anxiety is by over planning and over controlling. If we know where it's going to, we can just relax and do it. Unfortunately, in my experience, that's not the way it works. The story doesn't want to be told what to do. You have to enter into this process with a high level of trust that the many hours of choosing that you're doing every day will gradually clarify the narrative for you. And that's what happens.

  George Saunders

  Anxiety, Relax, Stories

  Fuente: therumpus.net

• No he escrito una novela o algo tan largo, porque realmente estoy improvisando todo el tiempo y a la historia le van saliendo nuevos miembros para hacer lo que tiene que hacer. Hay muy poca planificación. Hay una pequeña planificación en la que digo: "Bueno, parece que voy en esta dirección, vale, bien". Pero hay muy poca previsión o justificación intelectual: "¡Oh, mira, voy a poner un parque temático porque eso representa la América distópica!"

  George Saunders

  America, Long, Intellectual

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

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