#ding

I'm finding, as I get older, that I'm not much of a believer in redemption. I mean, I believe in redemption in real life - redemption does happen, and it's cool when it does - but I find myself getting leery of my desire for it in stories (especially my own). ↗

— George Saunders

#believer #cool #desire #does #especially

More and more these days what I find myself doing in my stories is making a representation of goodness and a representation of evil and then having those two run at each other full-speed, like a couple of PeeWee football players, to see what happens. Who stays standing? Whose helmet goes flying off? ↗

— George Saunders

#days #doing #each #evil #find

We have that illusion that we are 'deciding' what to make a character do, in order to 'convey our message' or something like that. But, at least in my experience, you are often more like a river-rafting guide who's been paid a bonus to purposely steer your clients into the roughest possible water. ↗

— George Saunders

#bonus #character #clients #convey #deciding

Women can go on marrying and pretending that their boyfriends and husbands are Mr. Darcy or some RomCom dream man. But where's that going to get 'em? Besides divorce court? ↗

— Dan Savage

#court #divorce #dream #get #go

Spending waiting moments doing crossword puzzles or reading a book you brought yourself. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

#brought #crossword #doing #moments #puzzles

Be able to sneeze without sounding ridiculous. That means neither stifling yourself or spraying your immediate vicinity. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

#immediate #means #neither #ridiculous #sneeze

I exist as an annexe of the BBC. I'm down the road a bit from the main building, in a little hut. ↗

— Alexei Sayle

#bit #building #down #down the road #exist

I have a lot of nice Italian winter clothes that make me look like a sophisticated Lebanese professor, so my friend Robert and I go around pretending to be experts in Arabic politics. It doesn't work in the summer though. I don't have the right clothes. ↗

— Alexei Sayle

#around #clothes #experts #friend #go

I've always thought space station is a great name. It should be like a gas station where we go for service and supplies before heading further out. ↗

— Wally Schirra

#before #further #gas #gas station #go

When people have asked if I'd like to go in the Shuttle, I said you don't get to fly it, except for landing, which I'd love to do. I wouldn't go unless I could command it. ↗

— Wally Schirra

#command #could #except #fly #get