What good the prophet in the wilderness may do is incremental and personal. It's good for us to hear someone speak the… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
What concerns me most is the horrible degradation our notions of truth, civility, and decency have undergone. Also the way that language… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
It's a time when a lot of principle virtues are being tested. Do we still believe in the truth? Do we still… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I don't know how you feel, but I feel like writing, clarity of thought, and truth have been validated because we see… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“Those stories tended to be located around the places where things went wrong, and people were cruel to one another, and so… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I often think about image, and image is something that - but in truth, the real artistic process, as I've understood it,… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
This may be the one clear truth of the so-called border issue: Put a poor country next to a rich one and… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
With nonfiction, I go in trying to be really honest about what my preconceptions are. — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Being in church so often, spending those hours sitting in front of a highly symbolic array of objects, hearing those beautiful texts… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Humor is what happens when we're told the truth quicker and more directly than we're used to. — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Intelligent, heartfelt stories that tell a whole new set of truths about growing up American. Julie Orringer writes with virtuosity and depth… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
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 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
