531 Quotes by George Saunders

The writer is one who, embarking upon a task, does not know what to do.

For until we are ended, “never” may not be truly said. jack “malarkey” fuller And love may yet be ours. gene “rascal” kane.

Humor is what happens when we’re told the truth quicker and more directly than we’re used to.

Whatever you love, that will be an influence. It just will. So in effect the young writer’s job is: go out and find some stuff to love.

The Russians, when I found them a few years later, worked on me in the same way. They seemed to regard fiction not as something decorative but as a vital moral-ethical tool. They changed you when you read them, made the world seem to be telling a different, more interesting story, a story in which you might play a meaningful part, and in which you had responsibilities.

The scariest thought in the world is that someday I’ll wake up and realize I’ve been sleepwalking through my life: underappreciating the people I love, making the same hurtful mistakes over and over, a slave to neuroses, fear, and the habitual.

At times, they’re so Right and I’m so Left, we agree.

It smelled of man sweat and spaghetti sauce and old books. Like a library where sweaty men went to cook spaghetti.

Fox 8, jeez, how cud you not smell Poop of Wolf when it is rite on your own dang paw?