Pieces Quotes by George Saunders

8 Pieces quotes by George Saunders

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George Saunders’ eight piece‑related quotes blend humor with empathy, offering a concise, reflective taste of his distinctive narrative voice.

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I think it's basically the same game, although with a public figure like [Donald] Trump I think you are bound to consider…

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When you're embarking on a piece of writing, the anxiety is just too much, especially when you're young and you're trying to…

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When I wrote that [Donald] Trump piece, I had this uncomfortable experience of sensing a lot of things that were nascent, that…

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

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...There is no end to the making and selling of things there is no end to the making and selling of things…

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I came away believing and really deeply troubled by is the extent to which you can have two well-intentioned people talking in…

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If a writer understands his work as something that originates with him but then, with any luck, gets away from him, then…

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

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Success is like a mountain in front of you that keeps growing. If you're not careful, it will take up your whole life.

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“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,…

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“None of it was real; nothing was real. Everything was real; inconceivably real, infinitely dear. These and all things started as nothing, latent within…

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“We must see God not as a Him (some linear rewarding fellow) but an IT, a great beast beyond our understanding, who wants something…

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America, to me, should be shouting all the time, a bunch of shouting voices, most of them wrong, some of them nuts, but please,…

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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…

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

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“A Clinton staffer tells me his theory. Think about Frank Sinatra, he says: born to sing. Think about Willie Mays: born to play ball.…

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We try, we fail, we posture, we aspire, we pontificate - and then we age, shrink, die, and vanish.

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“You were torturing a cat," she says. "With a freaking prod." "A prod I built myself in metal shop," he says. "But of course…

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“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…

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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…

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What good the prophet in the wilderness may do is incremental and personal. It's good for us to hear someone speak the irrational truth.…

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

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You don't want to be that parent - the one who dresses his kid in a cloth sack when all the other kids are…

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