Moments Quotes by George Saunders

Character is that sum total of moments we can't explain.

— George Saunders

We're in the transition between birth and death. But the one that people often know about is the transition between the moment…

— George Saunders

In the moment of reading, the writer comes up to the surface and the reader comes up to the surface and they…

— George Saunders

I don't know about transformation. But scientifically you can say: Well, it doesn't seem to hurt anybody. Personally I've been cheered by…

— George Saunders

Writing and reading and speaking with specificity and skill has never seen more important to me than it does at this moment.…

— George Saunders

What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness. Those moments when another human being was there, in front of…

— George Saunders

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

— George Saunders

There's a really nice moment in the life of a piece of writing where the writer starts to get a feeling of…

— George Saunders

Now, we don't really believe these things - intellectually we know better - but we believe them viscerally, and live by them,…

— 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

I've also found that trying to be active with social media changes my moment-to-moment perceptions. Instead of feeling, "What's the deepest version…

— George Saunders

I often think about image, and image is something that - but in truth, the real artistic process, as I've understood it,…

— George Saunders

That underscored this idea that when we're reading a book or writing a book, you're in an act of co-creation. The reader…

— George Saunders

Some of Buddhist texts say that, in the moment after you die, you think of New Jersey and you go to New…

— George Saunders

And so, a prediction, and my heartfelt wish for you: as you get older, your self will diminish and you will grow…

— George Saunders

So much of what I am doing in my fiction is just trying to get into interesting places in terms of language…

— George Saunders

I've had that situation where I start writing somebody really miserable, and in order to make the story come alive, I have…

— George Saunders

[In the moment of reading writer and reader] are both briefly their best selves, or at least better selves. A flawed human…

— George Saunders

It seems to me a worthy goal: try to create a representation of consciousness that's durable and truthful, i.e., that accounts, somewhat,…

— George Saunders

Intelligent, heartfelt stories that tell a whole new set of truths about growing up American. Julie Orringer writes with virtuosity and depth…

— George Saunders

In real life, when you have an emotional experience, it's never just because of the thing that's been said. There's the backstory.…

— George Saunders

When we talk about adversity, this is the moment when character really gets tested. When things aren't going the way you want…

— George Saunders