George Saunders
👤 Speaker
2018
total appearances
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Wild Card with Rachel Martin
George Saunders
I was going the next morning.
Wild Card with Rachel Martin
George Saunders
And I was in the hotel, and I just had this dark night of the soul.
Wild Card with Rachel Martin
George Saunders
And what this older person said to me, two things.
Wild Card with Rachel Martin
George Saunders
One is, if you go in there and get killed, you're going to break your mother's heart.
Wild Card with Rachel Martin
George Saunders
Because she doesn't even know you're there.
Wild Card with Rachel Martin
George Saunders
And then I said, yeah, but Hemingway, he would do it.
Wild Card with Rachel Martin
George Saunders
And that wiser voice said to me, okay, smartass.
Wild Card with Rachel Martin
George Saunders
Why do you think Hemingway is famous?
Wild Card with Rachel Martin
George Saunders
There were a lot of people in a war, that First World War.
Wild Card with Rachel Martin
George Saunders
Because he was a great writer.
Wild Card with Rachel Martin
George Saunders
Do you want to be a guy who had been in a war?
Wild Card with Rachel Martin
George Saunders
Or do you want to be a great writer?