“He came out of nothingness, took form, was loved, was always bound to return to nothingness.” — George Saunders Copy Share Image
So I may not have had a gothic childhood, but childhood makes its own gothicity. — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“I guess you just have to trust your kids, trust that their innate interest in life will win out in the end,… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
The main thing a childhood in the Church did for me, I think, was set up the universe as a moral system.… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
For me, the fiction writer's job is to take the small, stupid process of learning to use an iPhone - and suddenly… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“One of pleasures of parenting, future reader: parent can positively influence kid, make moment kid will remember for rest of life, moment… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“A bad thing happened to you kids, Dad said. But it could have been worse. So much worse, Mom said. But because… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“Trap. Horrible trap. At one’s birth it is sprung. Some last day must arrive. When you will need to get out of… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
That for me was the big turning point in my artistic life, when my wife and I had our kids. The world… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“When a child is lost there is no end to the self-torment a parent may inflict. When we love, and the object… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Intelligent, heartfelt stories that tell a whole new set of truths about growing up American. Julie Orringer writes with virtuosity and depth… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“The terror and consternation of the Presidential couple may be imagined by anyone who has ever loved a child, and suffered that… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“We left home, married, had children of our own, found the seeds of meanness blooming also within us. Dad began dresssing the… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“I felt myself a new species of child. Not a boy (most assuredly) but neither a (mere) girl. That skirt-bound race perpetually… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“Possessing perfect knowledge I hover above him as he hacks me to bits. I see his rough childhood. I see his mother… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“Sweet Evelyn, I think, I should have loved you better. Possessing perfect knowledge I hover above him as he hacks me to… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“Morse found it nerve-wracking to cross the St. Jude grounds just as school was being dismissed, because he felt that if he… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“One feels such love for the little ones, such anticipation that all that is lovely in life will be known by them,… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I have a sense that God is unfair and preferentially punishes his weak, his dumb, his fat, his lazy. I believe he… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“Mrs. Ellis was a stately, regal woman, always surrounded by three gelatinous orbs floating about her person, each containing a likeness of… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“At Sea Oak there's no sea and no oak, just a hundred subsidized apartments and a rear view of FedEx. Min and… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Success is like a mountain in front of you that keeps growing. If you're not careful, it will take up your whole life. — George Saunders Copy Share
“Wow wow wow is all I can say! Remember how I always buy lunchtime Scratch-Off ticket? Have I said? Maybe did not say? Well,… — George Saunders Copy Share
“None of it was real; nothing was real. Everything was real; inconceivably real, infinitely dear. These and all things started as nothing, latent within… — George Saunders Copy Share
“We must see God not as a Him (some linear rewarding fellow) but an IT, a great beast beyond our understanding, who wants something… — George Saunders Copy Share
America, to me, should be shouting all the time, a bunch of shouting voices, most of them wrong, some of them nuts, but please,… — George Saunders Copy Share
In my case, when I am trying to be "kind" I often default in a sort of toothless loving-all stance that is, actually, not… — George Saunders Copy Share
Whatever your supposed politics are - left, right - if you put it in a human connection, most people will rise to the occasion… — George Saunders Copy Share
“A Clinton staffer tells me his theory. Think about Frank Sinatra, he says: born to sing. Think about Willie Mays: born to play ball.… — George Saunders Copy Share
We try, we fail, we posture, we aspire, we pontificate - and then we age, shrink, die, and vanish. — George Saunders Copy Share
“You were torturing a cat," she says. "With a freaking prod." "A prod I built myself in metal shop," he says. "But of course… — George Saunders Copy Share
“Rachel got up and did this happy little shuffle, like she was some cheerful farmer chick who'd just stepped outside to find the hick… — George Saunders Copy Share
What America is, to me, is a guy doesn't want to buy, you let him not buy, you respect his not buying. A guy… — George Saunders Copy Share
What good the prophet in the wilderness may do is incremental and personal. It's good for us to hear someone speak the irrational truth.… — George Saunders Copy Share
We're in the transition between birth and death. But the one that people often know about is the transition between the moment of death… — George Saunders Copy Share
You don't want to be that parent - the one who dresses his kid in a cloth sack when all the other kids are… — George Saunders Copy Share
