George Saunders Quotes - Page 10

Quotes about:

• A hip-looking teen watches an elderly woman hobble across the street on a walker. "Grammy's here!" he shouts. He puts some MacAttack Mac&Cheese in the microwave and dons headphones and takes out a video game so he won't be bored during the forty seconds it takes his lunch to cook. A truck comes around the corner and hits Grammy, sending her flying over the roof into the backyard, where luckily she lands on a trampoline. Unluckily, she bounces back over the roof, into the front yard, landing on a rosebush.

  George Saunders

  Elderly, Land, Games

  8 Copy quote

• When I was a kid, I took 'The Brady Bunch' and 'The Partridge Family' very seriously. It was a world to me in the same way that the Greek myths would have been had I read them. You know, Marcia is Athena and Mr. Brady is Zeus.

  George Saunders

  Kids, Greek, World

  6 Copy quote

• There might be a different model for a literary community that's quicker, more real-time, and involves more spontaneity.

  George Saunders

  Real, Community, Different

  4 Copy quote

• I love the feeling of being on the hunt - the feeling that the story is refusing to be solved in some lesser way and is insisting that you see it on its highest terms.

  George Saunders

  Feelings, Stories, Way

  Source: www.nationalbook.org

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  7 Copy quote

• I watched a bunch of kids movies on Christmas. I was kind of joking with our family by asking, "Is anyone allowed to die in a kid's movie anymore?"

  George Saunders

  Kids, Asking, Kind

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  4 Copy quote

• It is very easy for us to go, you know, "I am being cruel to be kind," when really we are just ... being cruel. Because it makes us feel big, or whatever.

  George Saunders

  Be Kind, Just Being, Easy

  "George Saunders on Trump, Mystery, and Why He Rejects Social Media". Interview with Catherine Woodiwiss, sojo.net. August 30, 2016.

  4 Copy quote

• I feel nervous because I revere [Zadie Smith] so much. I don't want to be stupid. If I say something stupid, just interrupt me.

  George Saunders

  Stupid, Want, Nervous

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  4 Copy quote

• I have a lot of theories about the beneficial effects of fiction, but I'm always trying to get away from them a little bit.

  George Saunders

  Always Trying, Fiction, Littles

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  4 Copy quote

• I might take from the current political chaos a desire to somehow reflect its essential qualities in a story - the blatant lies that get accepted with repetition; the way mass media seems to be agitating people en masse; the way, particularly, that a relatively lucky and affluent and privileged population can be undone by a certain spoiled quality; that feeling when two decent people violently disagree, because they are arguing from two non-intersecting data sets - well, the list goes on.

  George Saunders

  Lying, Media, Data

  "George Saunders on Trump, Mystery, and Why He Rejects Social Media". Interview with Catherine Woodiwiss, sojo.net. August 30, 2016.

  4 Copy quote

• Compassion doesn't have to be weak or enabling; it can also be quite bold.

  George Saunders

  Compassion, Enabling, Weak

  Source: therumpus.net

  4 Copy quote

• I'm not a natural criticizer - I prefer to like and praise and so on.

  George Saunders

  Praise, Natural

  "George Saunders on Trump, Mystery, and Why He Rejects Social Media". Interview with Catherine Woodiwiss, sojo.net. August 30, 2016.

  5 Copy quote

• I'd just say that truth is power and vice versa.

  George Saunders

  Vices, Truth Is, Vice Versa

  "George Saunders on Trump, Mystery, and Why He Rejects Social Media". Interview with Catherine Woodiwiss, sojo.net. August 30, 2016.

  4 Copy quote

• As for "toothy kindness" - I think all traditions are full of this sort of tough kindness. If someone is on a wrong or dull path, and someone else startles them into awareness of that, then that's a blessing. And the method by which the startle is obtained might be anger, or satire, or an intentionally applied indifference. But that is, of course, a fine line.

  George Saunders

  Kindness, Blessing, Thinking

  "George Saunders on Trump, Mystery, and Why He Rejects Social Media". Interview with Catherine Woodiwiss, sojo.net. August 30, 2016.

  4 Copy quote

• I am trying to remember that things have certainly been crazier in human history and they may get crazier here and now, and [here I am trying to be optimistic] it's even a good thing, to be going through all of this, if only to be reminded that history hasn't stopped - human existence is as fundamentally unmanageable now as it ever was.

  George Saunders

  Optimistic, Here I Am, Trying

  "George Saunders on Trump, Mystery, and Why He Rejects Social Media". Interview with Catherine Woodiwiss, sojo.net. August 30, 2016.

  4 Copy quote

• The bottom line for me is that life is short and art is long.

  George Saunders

  Art, Life Is Short, Long

  "George Saunders on Trump, Mystery, and Why He Rejects Social Media". Interview with Catherine Woodiwiss, sojo.net. August 30, 2016.

  4 Copy quote

• I know that my only chance at any kind of depth or profundity is to linger within the story, trying to make it distinguish itself.

  George Saunders

  Trying, Depth, Stories

  "George Saunders on Trump, Mystery, and Why He Rejects Social Media". Interview with Catherine Woodiwiss, sojo.net. August 30, 2016.

  4 Copy quote

• The demographics are changing - and so what? Citizenship is a question of certain agreed-upon values and that is that. Do we believe that? I think at heart we do.

  George Saunders

  Believe, Heart, Thinking

  "George Saunders on Trump, Mystery, and Why He Rejects Social Media". Interview with Catherine Woodiwiss, sojo.net. August 30, 2016.

  4 Copy quote

• I think the biggest single issue is income inequity and what this is doing to the good old "American dream." This and corporatism - this delusional idea that "shareholder value" outweighs everything else.

  George Saunders

  Dream, Thinking, Ideas

  "George Saunders on Trump, Mystery, and Why He Rejects Social Media". Interview with Catherine Woodiwiss, sojo.net. August 30, 2016.

  4 Copy quote

• I used to joke about this but I've recently realized that I really believe it: I spent many years training myself to write very slowly for pretty good money. So the idea of writing really quickly for free offends me.

  George Saunders

  Believe, Writing, Years

  "George Saunders on Trump, Mystery, and Why He Rejects Social Media". Interview with Catherine Woodiwiss, sojo.net. August 30, 2016.

  4 Copy quote

• All of this strife on the political front might just be the death throes of another set of [less-honorable] American beliefs, that have, at their core, the notion that equality is something the privileged group "gives" to those not so privileged - a reaching down, as it were.

  George Saunders

  Giving, Political, Might

  "George Saunders on Trump, Mystery, and Why He Rejects Social Media". Interview with Catherine Woodiwiss, sojo.net. August 30, 2016.

  4 Copy quote

• The old and honorable American notion, that a person who works hard should be able to live in freedom and security, with dignity - seems to have taken on a secondary status.

  George Saunders

  Taken, Hard Work, Able

  "George Saunders on Trump, Mystery, and Why He Rejects Social Media". Interview with Catherine Woodiwiss, sojo.net. August 30, 2016.

  4 Copy quote

• It really was something, to see Ram Bahadur Bomjon, apparently living without food or water. Before I went on that trip I'd asked advice on it from a very wise person who I love and revere - basically trying to see if I was somehow disrespecting Buddhism by trying to write about it, and also looking for some grounding on what stance to take ... and my friend said, "Well, why don't you just go and see?" And I hear that in my head all the time now: "Why don't you go and see?"

  George Saunders

  Wise, Writing, Buddhism

  Source: sojo.net

  4 Copy quote

• I don't tend to work directly from life, except in trying to mimic or match the outlines of its insanity. In other words, when I live through something, I just try to say to myself, "OK, remember this - life is really this crazy or scary or beautiful or surprising - so try to 'get at' that in your stories.

  George Saunders

  Beautiful, Crazy, Scary

  "George Saunders on Trump, Mystery, and Why He Rejects Social Media". Interview with Catherine Woodiwiss, sojo.net. August 30, 2016.

  4 Copy quote

• We've got a real problem with social media that we didn't know we were going to have. It's almost like the demons have gotten out of the box.

  George Saunders

  Real, Media, Problem

  Source: m.motherjones.com

  4 Copy quote

Page 10 of 19

First

← Prev

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

Next →

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin