World Quotes by George Saunders

It's a big world, and I really like it.

— George Saunders

What evil does first in the world, maybe, is distract us from our pursuit of goodness.

— George Saunders

When you read a short story, you come out a little more aware and a little more in love with the world…

— George Saunders

The most hopeful thing in the stories, I hope, is wit. I make it up. If I make up a world in…

— George Saunders

I'm from a pretty working-class background, and I really worked hard in my life to eradicate those parts of myself that were…

— George Saunders

If you're going to make an emotional connection with somebody, whether it's in the story or in the world, there's a certain…

— 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

The scariest thought in the world is that someday I'll wake up and realize I've been sleepwalking through my life: underappreciating the…

— George Saunders

When I was a kid, I took 'The Brady Bunch' and 'The Partridge Family' very seriously. It was a world to me…

— George Saunders

If you think of a work of fiction as a kind of scale model of the world, then the positive valences -…

— 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

Night was falling. Birds were singing. Birds were, it occurred to me to say, enacting a frantic celebration of day's end. They…

— George Saunders

I have a sense that God is unfair and preferentially punishes his weak, his dumb, his fat, his lazy. I believe he…

— George Saunders

I love story-writing because I can (more or less, on occasion) actually DO it. That's really the truth. I like the idea…

— 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

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

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

A culture's ability to understand the world and itself is critical to its survival. But today we are led into the arena…

— George Saunders

The great American denial riff is that you can do whatever you like and you always triumph at the end. The world…

— George Saunders

If I go to the coffee shop and have a nice interaction with the barista, I don't know what that does for…

— George Saunders

I don't use the word lightly, in fact, I don't use it at all, but Ben Marcus is a genius, one of…

— George Saunders

I read Rand and thought, "I want to be one of the earth movers, the scientific people who power the world. I…

— George Saunders

I sometimes think that I can't do the bigger thing that [Zadie Smith] do so beautifully, as in Swing Time, with so…

— George Saunders

That for me was the big turning point in my artistic life, when my wife and I had our kids. The world…

— George Saunders

Don't be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible. Stay open, forever, so open it hurts, and…

— George Saunders

The cool parts - the parts that have won Dubai its reputation as 'the Vegas of the Middle East' or 'the Venice…

— George Saunders

I believe that, when [meeting of writer and reader] happens and the reader goes out into the world the next day, there's…

— George Saunders