George snippet

George Saunders has been on the road for In Persuasion Nation. He did a reading in LA the day after I left, if you can believe my bad luck. Anyway, from over here:

So you’re not sure what you’re working on next?
I think a story will tell you what it needs if you reside with it. Einstein says something about “No worthy problem can ever be solved on the original plane of its conception.”

Einstein said that?
Yeah. We were talking.