"I like the way that the history of the tree shapes the tree. There's no distinction between the tree and its history. You can lose yourself in that thought."

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There were several points where I would kind of turn to the book and say, "Get thee behind me." I don't think real novelists do that. But I make a distinction between prose that's very efficiency-minded (like, the minimum I can get away with), versus loosening the screws and letting the words spill out beautifully and so on.

— George Saunders