LH: What’s the best writing advice you’ve ever received? GS: It was from my teacher Tobias Wollf: “Don’t lose the magic.” What this means to me now is, the first job of an artist is to delight the audience and she might not get to choose how she does that—it has to do with who she is. That’s basically the writer’s life work, to find out how he or she is delightful on the page.
George Saunders on the Songs (and Stories) He Can’t Live Without ‹ Literary Hub














