531 Quotes by George Saunders

It was just a strong feeling in my hart that it was no gud for Foxes to give up and just be ded on perpose.

I am always considering the reader. Although this is admittedly kind of odd: Which reader? On what day? In what mood? For me, that “reader” is actually just me, if I had never read the story before.

Oh, the pathos of it! – haggard, drawn into fixed lines of unutterable sadness, with a look of loneliness, as of a soul whose depth of sorrow and bitterness no human sympathy could ever reach. The impression I carried away was that I had seen, not so much the President of the United States, as the saddest man in the world.

The word ‘funny’ is a bit like the word ‘love’ – we don’t have enough words to describe the many varieties.

Whenever you talk about writing I think you have to remember that it all has a big question mark over it – every word has a big question mark over it.

Success is like a mountain in front of you that keeps growing. If you’re not careful, it will take up your whole life.

I often think about image, and image is something that – but in truth, the real artistic process, as I’ve understood it, is 95 percent intuitive, like seat-of-the-pants, at-the-moment decisions that you can’t even explain, you know?

Everything was real; inconceivably real, infinitely dear. These and all things started as nothing, latent within a vast energy-broth, but then we named them, and loved them, and, in this way, brought them forth. And now we must lose them.

What is truth, if not an ongoing faith in, and continuing hope for, that which one feels and knows in one’s heart to be right, all temporary and ephemeral contraindications notwithstanding?