Best George Saunders Words
- That for me was the big turning point in my artistic life, when my wife and I had our kids. The world got infused with… Artistic
- We have that illusion that we are 'deciding' what to make a character do, in order to 'convey our message' or something like that. But,… Been
- Whatever your supposed politics are - left, right - if you put it in a human connection, most people will rise to the occasion and… Conceptual
- When something really bad is going on in a culture, the average guy doesn't see it. He can't. He's average and is surrounded by and… Average
- She said America was a spoiled child ignorant of grief. America
- Goodbye. I'm leaving because I'm bored. Bored
- What I'm primarily saying,' he says, 'is that this is a time for knowledge assimilation, not backstabbing. We learned a lesson, you and I. We… Appropriate
- It's a big world, and I really like it. Big
- ...There is no end to the making and selling of things there is no end to the making and selling of things there is no… Been
- ...smile first, then speak. Firsts
- The generalizing writer is like the passionate drunk, stumbling into your house mumbling: I know I'm not being clear, exactly, but don't you kind of… Clear
- Humor is what happens when we're told the truth quicker and more directly than we're used to. Directly
- What good the prophet in the wilderness may do is incremental and personal. It's good for us to hear someone speak the irrational truth. It's… All
- Down in the city are the nice houses and the so-so houses and the lovers making out in dark yards and the babies crying for… All
- This may be the one clear truth of the so-called border issue: Put a poor country next to a rich one and watch which way… Add
- A culture's ability to understand the world and itself is critical to its survival. But today we are led into the arena of public debate… Ability
- Now I began to understand art as a kind of black box the reader enters. He enters in one state of mind and exits in… Art
- At times, they're so Right and I'm so Left, we agree. Agree
- I don't think much new ever happens. Most of us spend our days the same way people spent their days in the year 1000: walking… Another Part
- America, to me, should be shouting all the time, a bunch of shouting voices, most of them wrong, some of them nuts, but please, not… All
- I have lunch, flirt with some local grandmothers, undercut my flirting by crotching myself on the corner of a table as I leave. -- "The… Corner
- There comes that phase in life when, tired of losing, you decide to stop losing, then continue losing. Then you decide to really stop losing,… Begin
- My heart goes out to him. Sort of. Because empathy depends on how you've spent your day. Day
- Vonnegut's war was necessary. And yet it was massacre and screaming and confusion and blood and death. It was the mammoth projection outward of the… Aside
- In art, and maybe just in general, the idea is to be able to be really comfortable with contradictory ideas. In other words, wisdom might… Able
More Ways to Read George Saunders Quotes
- Best George Saunders Quotes (George Saunders Quotes)
- Best George Saunders Sayings (George Saunders Quotes)
- Best George Saunders Quotations (George Saunders Quotes)
- Best George Saunders Lines (George Saunders Quotes)