Time Quotes by George Saunders

I hear that in my head all the time now: 'Why don't you go and see?'.

— George Saunders

At times, they're so Right and I'm so Left, we agree.

— George Saunders

You can say you're a liberal and everybody laughs and it's a good time.

— George Saunders

Character is that sum total of moments we can't explain.

— George Saunders

“We were all over each other in the super-friendly way of puppies, or spouses meeting for the first time after one of…

— George Saunders

“A house on the park. He'd seen it a million times. And now was in it. It smelled of man sweat and…

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I don't know about transformation. But scientifically you can say: Well, it doesn't seem to hurt anybody. Personally I've been cheered by…

— George Saunders

[Reading Swing Time] made me a feel a little bit like when I used to read David [Foster] Wallace. Like, "I can't…

— George Saunders

I've seen time and time again the way that the process of trying to say something dignifies and improves a person.

— George Saunders

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

Sometimes I think fiction exists to model the way God might think of us, if God had the time and inclination to…

— George Saunders

In the moment of reading, the writer comes up to the surface and the reader comes up to the surface and they…

— George Saunders

I think the trick of being a writer is to basically put your cards out there all the time and be willing…

— George Saunders

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

“The time he'd cheated on Syl, Syl had seen through him, broken off their engagement, and cheated on him with Charles, which…

— George Saunders

“How could we have been otherwise? Or, being that way, have done otherwise? We were that way, at that time, and had…

— George Saunders

“I dozed, and slipped through him, into his horse, who was, I felt at that moment, pure Patience, head to hoof, and…

— George Saunders

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

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 also found that trying to be active with social media changes my moment-to-moment perceptions. Instead of feeling, "What's the deepest version…

— 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

You don't want to spend your life writing about stuff that doesn't matter. You want to try to pull out of the…

— George Saunders

“Father," she said late one night. "I can't keep up. Our goats are dying. We're going to have to ask the neighbors…

— George Saunders

And so, a prediction, and my heartfelt wish for you: as you get older, your self will diminish and you will grow…

— George Saunders

“And next time we hear someone saying something like, 'We are pursuing this strategy because other strategies, when we had considered them,…

— George Saunders

I think that tri [to Ram Bahadur Bomjon] was the first time I'd even seen something that made me think, or really…

— George Saunders

“If at the moment when someone cuts us off in traffic or breaks our heart or begins bombing our ancestral village, we…

— George Saunders

“And proceeded past Trevor Williams, former hunter, seated before the tremendous heap of all the animals he had dispatched in his time:…

— George Saunders

“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

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

“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

I think the trick of being a writer is to basically put your cards out there all the time and be willing…

— George Saunders

What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness. Those moments when another human being was there, in front of…

— George Saunders

Writing and reading and speaking with specificity and skill has never seen more important to me than it does at this moment.…

— George Saunders

Maybe you could even think 100,000 people are inside each human being. And you drop a novel on that person, and a…

— George Saunders

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

— George Saunders

“One of pleasures of parenting, future reader: parent can positively influence kid, make moment kid will remember for rest of life, moment…

— George Saunders

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

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

Certainly we're always rooting for our particular contingent moment to be a great one. Pain-free. But the more expansive vision has to…

— George Saunders