George Saunders Quotes About Representation

Quotes about: Representation

• More and more these days what I find myself doing in my stories is making a representation of goodness and a representation of evil and then having those two run at each other full-speed, like a couple of PeeWee football players, to see what happens. Who stays standing? Whose helmet goes flying off?

  George Saunders

  Football, Running, Couple

  "George Saunders's Wild Ride". Interview with Deborah Treisman, www.newyorker.com. December 12, 2010.

• 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 strange, tiny, hard-to-articulate, instantaneous, unwilled things that actually go on in our minds in the course of a given day, or even a given moment.

  George Saunders

  Goal, Mind, Trying

  "This week in fiction: George Saunders" by Deborah Treisman, www.newyorker.com. October 21, 2011.

• I think people have come to expect that in artistic representation; that every work of art should be a work of extravagant hope.

  George Saunders

  Art, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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