“How could we have been otherwise? Or, being that way, have done otherwise? We were that way, at that time, and had… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
[In the moment of reading writer and reader] are both briefly their best selves, or at least better selves. A flawed human… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
My idea about collections is that you write as hard as you can for some period and what you're really doing during… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“If at the moment when someone cuts us off in traffic or breaks our heart or begins bombing our ancestral village, we… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness. Those moments when another human being was there, in front of… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
If I'm writing a story and you're reading it, or vice versa, you took time out of your day to pick up… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I heard Zen teacher one time talking about abortion, and he was saying the way that abortion makes bad karma is any… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I hear that in my head all the time now: 'Why don't you go and see?'. — 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
With fiction, and also with nonfiction that you can take your time doing, you have a much better chance of reaching across… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“You know that feeling at the end of the day, when the anxiety of that-which-I-must-do falls away and, for maybe the first… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“And proceeded past Trevor Williams, former hunter, seated before the tremendous heap of all the animals he had dispatched in his time:… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think fiction exists to model the way God might think of us, if God had the time and inclination to… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Now, we don't really believe these things - intellectually we know better - but we believe them viscerally, and live by them,… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I think the trick of being a writer is to basically put your cards out there all the time and be willing… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“She's sweet but too apocalyptic. You try kissing someone good-night who's just told you for the umpteenth time that the world's experiencing… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Writing and reading and speaking with specificity and skill has never seen more important to me than it does at this moment.… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I think in our time, you know, so much of the information we get is pre-polarized. Fiction has a way of reminding… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I watched a documentary about the immigrant crisis around the world. And it does make me blush at all the times I've… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
There's a really nice moment in the life of a piece of writing where the writer starts to get a feeling of… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
From across the woods, as if by common accord, birds left their trees and darted upward. I joined them, flew amount them,… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“One of pleasures of parenting, future reader: parent can positively influence kid, make moment kid will remember for rest of life, moment… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
And so, a prediction, and my heartfelt wish for you: as you get older, your self will diminish and you will grow… — 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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