"If you haven’t read you don’t have the voice. The lack of voice eliminates experience." ― George Saunders Topic(s): Experience More From George Saunders "A John Updike is a once-in-a-generation phenomenon, if that generation is lucky: so comfortable in so many genres, the same lively, generous intelligence suffusing all he did." "We try, we fail, we posture, we aspire, we pontificate – and then we age, shrink, die, and vanish." "It’s funny with fiction – once you cut something, it hasn’t happened anymore." More In Experience "All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience."― Henry Miller "Mysteriously and in ways that are totally remote from natural experience, the gray drizzle of horror induced by depression takes on the quality of physical pain."― William Styron "Whatever you dwell on in the conscious grows in your experience."― Brian Tracy