It's easier than you might think to make a difference in a kid's life. There are no special requirements you have to have - you just kind of... →
Sherri Saum
Expeditions are escapism. The stuff that we're normally concerned about just doesn't matter out there. Tax returns, gas bill, none of it.... →
Ben Saunders
The scariest thought in the world is that someday I'll wake up and realize I've been sleepwalking through my life: underappreciating the... →
George Saunders
Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel? Yes, Literature answers. Are people good or bad?... →
I started out in engineering. I was a geophysical engineer. Throughout the course of my life I've done a lot of strange jobs, and the effect has... →
I turned 54 this year and I find myself feeling like I'm in a bit of a race to get down on paper the way I really feel about life - or the way it... →
I'm finding, as I get older, that I'm not much of a believer in redemption. I mean, I believe in redemption in real life - redemption does... →
I've had the thought that a person's 'artistic vision' is really just the cumulative combination of whatever particular stances he... →
That for me was the big turning point in my artistic life, when my wife and I had our kids. The world got infused with morality again. Every person... →
There's a really nice moment in the life of a piece of writing where the writer starts to get a feeling of it outgrowing him - or he starts to... →