George Saunders

Okay, and they took it off.

They got rid of it.

Nobody was saying that calculus was too difficult.

Calculus was causing their kids trouble.

So I do tend to be a little bit of a stickler on that.

I think we could do better.

Yeah.

I think they're kind of like me in that it's the one thing that they really can do.

In my mind, there's a lot of thinking about just this topic, the decline of literature, the role of the writer.

But I recognize that as being a little bit of my kind of

everyday cloud mind that actually, if I go a step deeper than that, the real answer is it's the one thing I've been good at in my life.

And it's the one thing that really lights me up even now when I do it.

And I think my students have the same thing.

So, you know, I don't think if nobody was reading it, I think I might still be inclined to do it.

The sweetest thing for me is that feeling of the story coming out of the stone, you know?

You're just farting around and it's just text.

It's just all typing.

And then you keep revising and suddenly it's not just typing anymore.

It's actually something else.

So I think that's the real answer.