Ideas Quotes by George Saunders

One of the ideas that runs through this book [Lincoln in the Bardo] is this Buddhist notion that the mind is incredibly…

— George Saunders

While writing this book [Lincoln in the Bardo], [idea of inclusion] occurred to me, you either believe in the Constitution or you…

— George Saunders

I think the biggest single issue is income inequity and what this is doing to the good old "American dream." This and…

— George Saunders

If you want to explore a political idea in the highest possible way, you embody it in the personal, because that's something…

— George Saunders

My idea about collections is that you write as hard as you can for some period and what you're really doing during…

— George Saunders

I used to joke about this but I've recently realized that I really believe it: I spent many years training myself to…

— George Saunders

Twitter is a deliberate abstention. Somehow I hate the idea of there always being, in the back of my mind, this little…

— George Saunders

Certainly we're always rooting for our particular contingent moment to be a great one. Pain-free. But the more expansive vision has to…

— George Saunders

The way I understood purgatory - and maybe you've got a different version - but in Chicago in the '70s, the idea…

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Both [Donald] Trump and Bernie [Sanders] got to this idea of the vanishing middle class sooner and with more passion than more…

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Whole idea is really intriguing to me. If you took snapshots of ourselves throughout the day, the way that our mind is…

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If you start with the idea that you are going to be writing about a night in a graveyard, and that there…

— George Saunders

I have been married to my wife, Paula, for 25 years. We have wonderful kids. Things are - it's been a really…

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My view is that our minds are incredibly powerful animals that are, during life, kept somewhat in check by the load of…

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One of the revelations in that book [Lincoln in the Bardo] for me was this idea about citizenship. Even that word -…

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So for me the approach has become to go into a story not really sure of what I want to say, try…

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I say yes to the hot bath and the sandwich - to getting ourselves into the best possible mental shape to identify…

— George Saunders

The only thing I might have noticed [and this is pretty anecdotal] is that there is some tendency to need to be…

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The idea is that what an artist lives through should broaden his notion of what it is possible for a human being…

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The idea of inclusion has become kind of a stone that we've passed our hand over so many times that it doesn't…

— George Saunders

I love the idea that more people would read short fiction. I think it's such a humanizing form. It softens the boundaries…

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What I really found myself interested in was the idea that our minds our so powerful and when we're living, the mind…

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I love story-writing because I can (more or less, on occasion) actually DO it. That's really the truth. I like the idea…

— George Saunders

I don't know how you feel, but I feel like writing, clarity of thought, and truth have been validated because we see…

— George Saunders

I was raised Catholic,I took from that was a sense of theater and drama, and also the idea that there were truths…

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This - where we are now - is where a culture gets to, when it has chosen, for many years, banality over…

— George Saunders

In art, and maybe just in general, the idea is to be able to be really comfortable with contradictory ideas. In other…

— George Saunders