Best George Saunders Quotations
- Reading is a form of prayer, a guided meditation that briefly makes us believe we're someone else, disrupting the delusion that we're permanent and at… Believe
- To me, the writer's main job is to just make the story unscroll in such a way that the reader is snared - she's right… Care
- Nostalgia is, 'Hey, remember the other mall that used to be there?' Hey
- Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this… Bored
- So I may not have had a gothic childhood, but childhood makes its own gothicity. Childhood
- I'm always aware of writing around things I can't do, and I've come to think that that's actually what 'style' is - an avoidance of… Always Aware
- Back in 1992, I had my first story accepted by 'The New Yorker.' Accepted
- Character is that sum total of moments we can't explain. Character
- Chekhov - shall I be blunt? - is the greatest short story writer who ever lived. Blunt
- If you haven't read you don't have the voice. The lack of voice eliminates experience. Eliminates
- It's funny with fiction - once you cut something, it hasn't happened anymore. Anymore
- Sometimes I think fiction exists to model the way God might think of us, if God had the time and inclination to do so. Exists
- That seems to be the definition of 'novel' for me: a story that hasn't yet discovered a way to be brief. Brief
- There might be a different model for a literary community that's quicker, more real-time, and involves more spontaneity. Community
- We try, we fail, we posture, we aspire, we pontificate - and then we age, shrink, die, and vanish. Age
- When I write I know that I'm going to have to produce 40 percent more than I need. Inspirational
- For me, the game would be to assume a very intelligent reader who can extrapolate a lot from a little. And that's become my definition… All
- The artist's job, I think, is to be a conduit for mystery. To intuit it, and recognize that the story-germ has some inherent mystery in… Artist
- When you read a short story, you come out a little more aware and a little more in love with the world around you. What… Awake
- You don't want to be that parent - the one who dresses his kid in a cloth sack when all the other kids are in… All
- I think fiction isn't so good at being for or against things in general - the rhetorical argument a short story can make is only… Accretion
- I was trained in seismic prospecting. We'd drill a deep hole and put dynamite in the bottom and blow it up remotely, which would give… Blow
- It would be so weird if we knew just as much as we needed to know to answer all the questions of the universe. Wouldn't… All
- My habit would have been to veer towards the dark - to prove I was something; edgy, or maybe to prove that I was cognisant… Age
- So for me the approach has become to go into a story not really sure of what I want to say, try to find some… Accrete
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