People Quotes by George Saunders

It's so ironic that you often hear these right-wing people talking about the Constitution.

— George Saunders

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

Toni Morrison seems to have a lot of faith in people - that's what I mean by gentle power.

— George Saunders

I actually believe that a lot of what people call originality has to do with persistence in the craft.

— George Saunders

We have not been energetic enough - white people haven't - in pursuing racial equity.

— George Saunders

Even the written history [of Abraham Lincoln's times] is poorly understood by most people.

— George Saunders

I don't really write beautifully naturally, unlike some people.

— George Saunders

I guess: People who are comfortable enough with reality to allow other sorts of realities and other mindsets to just be, and…

— George Saunders

We have to move toward specificity, intelligence, facts, proof, and mutual affection. What I think people have to do now is be…

— George Saunders

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

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

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

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

I think people have come to expect that in artistic representation; that every work of art should be a work of extravagant…

— George Saunders

I think it was a big revelation to me earlier in my life that people who appear to be evil are actually…

— George Saunders

I think it was a big revelation to me earlier in my life that people who appear to be evil are actually…

— George Saunders

My mind has an obsessive, neurotic quality, but I also have a very hard work ethic. I know that a lot of…

— George Saunders

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

— George Saunders

Nothing will turn you into a Civil War buff like five years of reading. Some of the letters that people wrote from…

— George Saunders

I think it is time for a new pride in the intellectual life, and a new impatience with people who take pride…

— George Saunders

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

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

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

One of the things I noticed about the Trump supporters was a lot of projected fear. I can't tell you how many…

— George Saunders

The weird thing was that I went to Trump rallies thinking I was going to run into militant, right wing, racist people…

— George Saunders

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

As much as we - in a revisionist way - tell ourselves that we've always been a righteous country with a couple…

— George Saunders

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

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

I keep thinking of Robert Stone making the distinction between the word sublime and the word beautiful. He described being in a…

— George Saunders

On one level, I am a total softie, sort of depressed and afraid of losing the people I love or failing them.…

— George Saunders

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

I read Rand and thought, "I want to be one of the earth movers, the scientific people who power the world. I…

— George Saunders

You know, you can talk about race, you can talk about sex, you can talk about your biopsy. But when you get…

— George Saunders

The chances of a person breaking through their own habits and sloth and limited mind to actually write something that gets out…

— George Saunders

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

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

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

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

Whatever your supposed politics are - left, right - if you put it in a human connection, most people will rise to…

— George Saunders