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Thinking Quotes by George Saunders
- I think that fiction has a part to play in urging us, as a species, toward compassion,
- The artist’s job, I think, is to be a conduit for mystery.
- I think that's one of the maybe under-discussed aspects of process - the difference between a good writing day and a bad one is the…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- If you think of a work of fiction as a kind of scale model of the world, then the positive valences - where things turn…
- 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…
- Sometimes I think fiction exists to model the way God might think of us, if God had the time and inclination to do so.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
More Thinking Quotes
- I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful. — Aaliyah
- There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. — Hannah Arendt
- Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. — Hannah Arendt
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- You can never guess or assume what anyone is going to think. — J. J. Abrams
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I don't think I have a signature. — J. J. Abrams
- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle
- The soul never thinks without a picture. — Aristotle
- I love working with the right actor, and if the right actor happens to be unknown, that should be allowed, too, I… — J. J. Abrams
- I think you have a passion and an obsession for something when it's not necessarily ubiquitous. — J. J. Abrams