Whatever your supposed politics are - left, right - if you put it in a human connection, most people will rise to… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I think it was a big revelation to me earlier in my life that people who appear to be evil are actually… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
It seemed to me, in some way, especially when you're looking back at distant historical events, the "Truth" with a capital "T"… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
People who've written about Abraham Lincoln's writing emphasize how logical he was. His writing was a syllogistic tool. He would say, if… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
On one level, I am a total softie, sort of depressed and afraid of losing the people I love or failing them.… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Nothing will turn you into a Civil War buff like five years of reading. Some of the letters that people wrote from… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
If you start with the idea that you are going to be writing about a night in a graveyard, and that there… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
The chances of a person breaking through their own habits and sloth and limited mind to actually write something that gets out… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Maybe you could even think 100,000 people are inside each human being. And you drop a novel on that person, and a… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
As Flannery O'Connor says, a person can choose what she writes but she can't choose what she makes live. Some people are… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I think people have come to expect that in artistic representation; that every work of art should be a work of extravagant… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I live up in the hills, and I don't have any cable, and I have really slow satellite, so that does it… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I'm a big lover of America. I love the people, but also the weird berms, the strange little high schools tucked away… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Reading is a form of prayer, a guided meditation that briefly makes us believe we're someone else, disrupting the delusion that we're… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Do not really like rich people, as they make us poor people feel dopey and inadequate. Not that we are poor. I… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
A culture's ability to understand the world and itself is critical to its survival. But today we are led into the arena… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Toni Morrison seems to have a lot of faith in people - that's what I mean by gentle power. — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I keep thinking of Robert Stone making the distinction between the word sublime and the word beautiful. He described being in a… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I love the idea that more people would read short fiction. I think it's such a humanizing form. It softens the boundaries… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
It's so ironic that you often hear these right-wing people talking about the Constitution. — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I find that the great artists I've met are people who are so playfully invested in their process that, even if it… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I don't think much new ever happens. Most of us spend our days the same way people spent their days in the… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I think it was a big revelation to me earlier in my life that people who appear to be evil are actually… — 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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
We try, we fail, we posture, we aspire, we pontificate - and then we age, shrink, die, and vanish. — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
