"Art rests on a kind of religious sense, on a deep, steadfast earnestness; and on this account it unites so readily with religion."

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I knew if I evoked that stuff too easily or gratuitously, as a way of assuaging my fears of not being edgy or whatever, the writing would fall apart. This book [Lincoln in the Bardo] was going to have to have some earnestness in it.

— George Saunders