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Writing Advice from George Saunders
"You may remember some of my other biggies, such as, 'Any monkey in a story had better be a dead monkey,' and 'Aunts and uncles are best construed as the heliological equivalent of small-scale weather systems,' or (the mother of all advice-quote-pairs): 'The number of rooms in a fictional house should be inversely proportional to the years during which the couple living in that house enjoyed true happiness.'"
AUTHOR:
Patrick Dacey
SOURCE:
BOMB Magazine
PUBLISHED:
April 27, 2011
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16 minutes (4096 words)
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