When you do something that's going to speak to people, it's going to be because you're really allowing all of yourself to… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
The scariest thought in the world is that someday I'll wake up and realize I've been sleepwalking through my life: underappreciating the… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I think it is time for a new pride in the intellectual life, and a new impatience with people who take pride… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
So many people mentioned this at these rallies. You go to these things and it's kind of like an oldies concert. I… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I actually believe that a lot of what people call originality has to do with persistence in the craft. — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Each of us is born with a series of built-in confusions that are probably somehow Darwinian. These are: (1) we're central to… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
When you're out there in America, meeting with regular people, it's a pretty mellow, relaxed, kind-hearted country. The direction from the top,… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I guess: People who are comfortable enough with reality to allow other sorts of realities and other mindsets to just be, and… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Even the written history [of Abraham Lincoln's times] is poorly understood by most people. — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I came away believing and really deeply troubled by is the extent to which you can have two well-intentioned people talking in… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
We have to move toward specificity, intelligence, facts, proof, and mutual affection. What I think people have to do now is be… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I read Rand and thought, "I want to be one of the earth movers, the scientific people who power the world. I… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Someone told me once - I mean I said, "Is it ok that I don't really know what the three-act structure is?"… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I've had that my whole career. People were always hedging around the question of: Why are you so dark? What happened to… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I might take from the current political chaos a desire to somehow reflect its essential qualities in a story - the blatant… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
As much as we - in a revisionist way - tell ourselves that we've always been a righteous country with a couple… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
We have not been energetic enough - white people haven't - in pursuing racial equity. — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel? Yes, Literature answers. Are people… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
You know, you can talk about race, you can talk about sex, you can talk about your biopsy. But when you get… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
My habit would have been to veer towards the dark - to prove I was something; edgy, or maybe to prove that… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I've been reading about and writing about the Civil War period and it is so striking that slavery was never made right… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
My mind has an obsessive, neurotic quality, but I also have a very hard work ethic. I know that a lot of… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
The weird thing was that I went to Trump rallies thinking I was going to run into militant, right wing, racist people… — 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
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