"I just want to write. It's like once I get those obsessive thoughts out of my head, once they're written down, they're somehow set free and I can move on."

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I know a lot of people who read and think: "George [Saunders] is so much fun." There's no denying you're fun to read, but as a writer I think of [George Saunders] as, in fact, not a fun and freewheeling type but really an obsessive control artist.

— Zadie Smith