Best George Saunders Sayings
- I often think about image, and image is something that - but in truth, the real artistic process, as I've understood it, is 95 percent… Artistic
- I started out in engineering. I was a geophysical engineer. Throughout the course of my life I've done a lot of strange jobs, and the… Been
- I think in our time, you know, so much of the information we get is pre-polarized. Fiction has a way of reminding us that we… Desire
- I turned 54 this year and I find myself feeling like I'm in a bit of a race to get down on paper the way… Beautifully
- I was a big and un-ironic fan of Dear Abby when I was a kid in Chicago. I think I sort of internalized her. So… Abby
- I was a straight arrow, a control freak. I didn't do drugs or drink, and this was the '70s. I didn't like the loss of… Arrow
- I wasted a lot of years working on my writing and very grandly saying, 'And now... My Novel!,' which would soon be reduced to a… Grandly
- I'm finding, as I get older, that I'm not much of a believer in redemption. I mean, I believe in redemption in real life -… Believe
- I've had the thought that a person's 'artistic vision' is really just the cumulative combination of whatever particular stances he has sincerely occupied during his… Appear
- If death is in the room, it's pretty interesting. But I would also say that I'm interested in getting myself to believe that it's going… Believe
- If you think of a work of fiction as a kind of scale model of the world, then the positive valences - where things turn… Better
- It seems to me a worthy goal: try to create a representation of consciousness that's durable and truthful, i.e., that accounts, somewhat, for all the… Accounts
- Stories, as much as we like to talk about them, retrospectively, as emanations of theme or worldview or intention, occur primarily as technical objects when… Decision
- The best thing that ever happened to me is that nothing happened in writing. I ended up working for engineering companies, and that's where I… Best
- The cool parts - the parts that have won Dubai its reputation as 'the Vegas of the Middle East' or 'the Venice of the Middle… Been
- The mind is a machine that is constantly asking: What would I prefer? Close your eyes, refuse to move, and watch what your mind does.… Another Arises
- The universal human laws - need, love for the beloved, fear, hunger, periodic exaltation, the kindness that rises up naturally in the absence of hunger/fear/pain… Absence
- There's a really nice moment in the life of a piece of writing where the writer starts to get a feeling of it outgrowing him… Desire
- What a powerful thing to know: That one's own desires are mappable onto strangers; that what one finds in oneself will most certainly be found… Desire
- When I was a kid, I took 'The Brady Bunch' and 'The Partridge Family' very seriously. It was a world to me in the same… Athena
- The scariest thought in the world is that someday I'll wake up and realize I've been sleepwalking through my life: underappreciating the people I love,… Been
- Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel? Yes, Literature answers. Are people good or bad?… Answers
- Developing our sympathetic compassion is not only possible but the only reason for us to be here on earth. Compassion
- Irony is just honesty with the volume cranked up. Cranked
- The word 'funny' is a bit like the word 'love' - we don't have enough words to describe the many varieties. Bit
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