George Saunders Quotes About Eyes

Quotes about: Eyes

• The mind is a machine that is constantly asking: What would I prefer? Close your eyes, refuse to move, and watch what your mind does. What it does is become discontent with that-which-is. A desire arises, you satisfy that desire, and another arises in its place.

  George Saunders

  Moving, Eye, Mind

  George Saunders (2012). “The Brain-Dead Megaphone”, p.214, A&C Black

• With non-fiction writing I feel like I'm confined and driven by what actually happened. That makes the "plot". So it's a process of getting all of my notes typed up, then scanning through the notes, trying to extract or find certain vignettes that seem like they might write well - that might have a potential for good energy, shape, etc. And then at some point I start stringing these together, keeping an eye on the word count.

  George Saunders

  Eye, Writing, Trying

• I remember reading The Bluest Eye when I was a young parent, and something opened in me. That's the highest aspiration.

  George Saunders

  Reading, Eye, Young Parents

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• In the absolute sense - kind of from the God's-eye view - God might feel like, "I made this thing that has all of that in it, all the horror and all the beauty."

  George Saunders

  Eye, Views, Might

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Every writer has to find the thing to keep her eye on about which she has strong opinions. That's of course deeply personal, but the nice thing is that it has to do with joy rather than fear. It has to do with you. If you're funny, your method will be to try to be funnier. Which again is empowering I think.

  George Saunders

  Strong, Nice, Eye

  Source: therumpus.net

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