Real Quotes by 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

I often wonder if there are certain areas of real life that are roped off, with a sign saying, "Art, don't come…

— George Saunders

Of course there's objective truth, but when we're looking at people's accounts of it, it seems the real truth lies in the…

— George Saunders

I see this quality [real interest and joy] in the work of [Pavel] Chekhov, of course, and [Alexei] Tolstoy and really just…

— 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

The one thing I noticed retroactively was that the energy at those Trump rallies was off the charts compared to the Hillary…

— George Saunders

Whatever happens, we can deal with it if we admit that it's happening and so on. So to be comfortable with what…

— George Saunders

As a kid, I had a real fascination with perverse, off-color, and kind of risky things, and I also had a very…

— George Saunders

It's not fiction's job to be photographically representative of reality. If I want to make a fictional world where there's no kindness,…

— George Saunders

A work of art is something produced by a person, but is not that person — it is of her, but is…

— George Saunders

I'm finding, as I get older, that I'm not much of a believer in redemption. I mean, I believe in redemption in…

— George Saunders

I'm starting to withdraw from [technology] as much as I can. I don't do much of the social media stuff. Like, if…

— George Saunders

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

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

There were several points where I would kind of turn to the book and say, "Get thee behind me." I don't think…

— George Saunders

Now I began to understand art as a kind of black box the reader enters. He enters in one state of mind…

— George Saunders

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

One of the inspiring things about Susan Sarandon career is that there's a quality of real fearlessness in it - you seem…

— George Saunders

There might be a different model for a literary community that's quicker, more real-time, and involves more spontaneity.

— George Saunders

We've got a real problem with social media that we didn't know we were going to have. It's almost like the demons…

— George Saunders

Just through the process of trying to make the living and the dead feel real, all these little benefits came out. And…

— 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

The switch that I'd like to throw on is the one that says, "Look, you're a human being whose mind is every…

— George Saunders

From the beginning [of the Lincoln in the Bardo], I actually had it in mind not to write a novel. I'd kind…

— George Saunders

Still, accomplishment is unreliable. "Succeeding," whatever that might mean to you, is hard, and the need to do so constantly renews itself…

— George Saunders