George Saunders Quotes About Short Stories

Quotes about: Short Stories

• 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 I want is to have the reader come out just 6 percent more awake to the world.

  George Saunders

  Stories, World, Want

• Chekhov - shall I be blunt? - is the greatest short story writer who ever lived.

  George Saunders

  Story Writers, Stories, Chekhov

• 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 actualized by the accretion of particular details, and the specificity of these details renders whatever conclusions the story reaches invalid for wider application.

  George Saunders

  Thinking, Details, Fiction

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

• 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 short story, then to a paragraph.

  George Saunders

  Writing, Years, Stories

• I'm very happy - if I can do even a little bit of work to get the short story out more, I'm thrilled.

  George Saunders

  Stories, Littles, Short Story

  Source: www.pbs.org

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