George Saunders Quotes

Stories, as much as we like to talk about them, retrospectively, as emanations of theme or worldview or intention, occur primarily as technical objects when they're being written. Or at least they do for me. They're the result of thousands of decisions made at speed during revision.

George Saunders

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 2, 1958

Topics

MeDecisionsSpeedResultIntention

A problem with a president who leads by stirring the moral sentiments of voters is that he has got to keep stirring them.

Jill Lepore

ProblemMoralPresidentKeepGotHe

Well, I'm from the South originally. I grew up in South Carolina definitely learning about manners and being proper and having to go to cotillions.

Anna Camp

LearningMannersGoUpBeingWell

The more queer characters I play over my years of working as an actor, and the more I see other young artists stepping up with the same intention I have, to make space for the voices of a generation of people who may not fit the status-quo, the more it inspires me to keep going.

Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman

Keep GoingSpacePeopleMePlaySee

What other people think about me is not my business.

Michael J. Fox

BusinessPeopleMeThinkAbout

Literally, my job is I make socks. That's all I do.

Rob Kardashian

JobSocksMakeLiterally

A writer is seldom satisfied with the condition he finds himself in. We're all given to fretting a lot.

Joseph Brodsky

SatisfiedWriterSeldomHeHimself

TCP works very hard to get the data delivered in order without errors and does retransmissions and recoveries and all that kind of stuff which is exactly what you want in a file transfer because so you don't want any errors in your file.

Jon Postel

DataYouWantKindHardWithout

I love hats. I love vests. I do like to look sharp.

Boyd Holbrook

LoveHatsLookSharpLikeI Love

I'm a big woman. I need big hair.

Aretha Franklin

WomanHairNeedBigBig Hair

It's really the sound of the voices, the sound of the words, the sound of the sound that we're interested in.

Anne Dudley

WordsSoundVoicesInterestedReally

Humble souls are fearful of their own strength.

William Gurnall

StrengthFearHumbleOwnSouls

I am running because I believe strongly that we need to get folks back to work and address the needs that the folks in the 1st Congressional District have in terms of employment and economic opportunity.

Suzan DelBene

WorkOpportunityI AmBelieveBack

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