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Going to read work you know is good when your own is going badly is legitimate recalibration, not theft.
Drawn from what George Saunders said
A private bookmark. Not a position, and never counted.
What George Saunders actually said
Word for word, with the source under each one. They did not write this page.
American short-story writer and novelist
I do, yes, get into “funks like that” and I do just what you describe: I go find some writing that I know is good and check in against that.
Where this was said
↗On the Perils of Self-Assessing...georgesaunders.substack.com
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