George Saunders Quotes


Irony is just honesty with the volume cranked up. George Saunders Honesty 122
We try, we fail, we posture, we aspire, we pontificate - and then we age, shrink, die, and vanish. George Saunders Age 87
I tend to foster drama via bleakness. If I want the reader to feel sympathy for a character, I cleave the character in half, on his birthday. And then it starts raining. And he's made of sugar. George Saunders Birthday 83
It's funny with fiction - once you cut something, it hasn't happened anymore. George Saunders Funny 72
She said America was a spoiled child ignorant of grief. George Saunders Bohemians 67
The word 'funny' is a bit like the word 'love' - we don't have enough words to describe the many varieties. George Saunders Funny 54
In the town where I live, I have frequently observed a phenomenon I have come to think of as Samish-Sex Marriage. George Saunders Ammendment 48
A John Updike is a once-in-a-generation phenomenon, if that generation is lucky: so comfortable in so many genres, the same lively, generous intelligence suffusing all he did. George Saunders Intelligence 43
Though firm we are never too firm though we love fun we never have fun in a silly way that makes us appear ridiculous unless that is our intent. George Saunders Satire 37
America to me should be shouting all the time a bunch of shouting voices most of them wrong some of them nuts but please not just one droning glamourous reasonable voice. George Saunders America 35

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