George Saunders Quotes About Books

• No me gusta que mis libros viajen por carretera. Se vuelven arrogantes y lo siguiente que hacen es aspirar a convertirse en libros de "gran formato". Yo digo que se queden en casa y sean libros normales de letra pequeña.

  George Saunders

  País, Libro, Casa

  Fuente: www.nationalbook.org

• It blew my mind, reading Swing Time, that I could take any sentence in the book, and it was one of the most beautiful sentences written in English.

  George Saunders

  Hermoso, Lectura, Libro

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Diría que escribir este libro [Lincoln in the Bardo] me sirvió para subrayar el hecho de que esta cuestión [todos los hombres han sido creados iguales] nunca se ha abordado adecuadamente y no ha desaparecido.

  George Saunders

  Libro, Escritura, Hombres

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

• If I'm writing a story and you're reading it, or vice versa, you took time out of your day to pick up my book. I think the one thing that will kill that relationship is if you feel me condescending to you in the process. And how does that happen? Well, it happens when I know more than you do, and when I know that I know more than you do, and I'm holding it back from you. So that I can then manipulate you at the end. You know, you think about like in a dating situation how terrible that would be, it's the same thing with a book.

  George Saunders

  Lectura, Libro, Escritura

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

• As the writer of this book [Lincoln in the Bardo], what I loved was the feeling of having so many surprises come at the end that I hadn't really planned or planted.

  George Saunders

  Book, Feelings, Surprise

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

• What was fun for me with this book [Lincoln in the Bardo] was to start out with the principle that went, "We're going to fight every day to make this not a novel; make it too short to be a novel." And then with that principle in place, the book sort of starts to say, "Okay, but I really need this. I really need some historical nuggets." And you're like, "All right, but keep it under control."

  George Saunders

  Fun, Book, Fighting

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I don't know about transformation. But scientifically you can say: Well, it doesn't seem to hurt anybody. Personally I've been cheered by books at really critical moments. That much I believe.

  George Saunders

  Herir, Creer, Libro

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I'm not thinking in any big thematic or conceptual terms - especially in this book [Lincoln in the Bardo] when I was trying to make the voices more active, more energetic.

  George Saunders

  Book, Thinking, Voice

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

• The book says [Lincoln in the Bardo],"I really need this sci-fi device of a ghost inhabiting another person." You say okay kind of begrudgingly. So the structure seemed informed by need and efficiency.

  George Saunders

  Book, Needs, Kind

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Una de las revelaciones de ese libro [Lincoln in the Bardo] fue la idea de la ciudadanía. Incluso esa palabra, ciudadanía, para alguien de mi edad, me da escalofríos. Pero, para mí, el espacio político en el que estamos ahora aboga por un reinicio de ideas bastante simples y el examen de la forma en que los estadounidenses no han estado viviendo de acuerdo con ellas.

  George Saunders

  Book, Simple, Ideas

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Whole swaths of the book [Lincoln in the Bardo] are made up of verbatim quotes from various historical sources, which I cut up and rearranged to form part of the narrative.

  George Saunders

  Book, Cutting, Historical

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Supongo que lo que trato de decir es que cualquier rareza que fuera a estar ahí, sentía que tenía que ganársela. Y tenía que ser requerido por las necesidades emocionales del libro.

  George Saunders

  Book, Emotional, Trying

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

• While writing this book [Lincoln in the Bardo], [idea of inclusion] occurred to me, you either believe in the Constitution or you don't. If you do, it's intense in what it wants of us.

  George Saunders

  Creer, Libro, Escribir

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

• [Lincoln in the Bardo] is not a long book. And that meant I could obsess over it and live in it both backwards and forwards and hyper-control everything.

  George Saunders

  Book, Long, Hyper

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Sabía que si evocaba esas cosas con demasiada facilidad o gratuitamente, como una forma de calmar mis temores de no ser vanguardista o lo que fuera, la escritura se vendría abajo. Este libro [Lincoln in the Bardo] tenía que tener algo de seriedad.

  George Saunders

  Libro, Otoño, Escritura

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

• [In the moment of reading writer and reader] are both briefly their best selves, or at least better selves. A flawed human being writes something and 60 years later a reader picks up the book and something in them rises to meet it.

  George Saunders

  Libro, Lectura, Escritura

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

• And I have finally realized that, you know, it's not a given that my lifespan will accommodate my writing aspirations. It could be that it would take me 12 more books at six years each to get it - which means I would have to live to be 126. Which I fully intend to do, of course.

  George Saunders

  Libro, Escritura, Media

  "George Saunders and Andy Ward". www.slate.com. January 7, 2013.

• The beginning [of Lincoln in the Bardo] is strange, and I did a lot of work calibrating that so that a reader with a certain level of patience would get through it and in the nick of time start to figure out what was going on. In a short book, you can do that.

  George Saunders

  Book, Levels, Strange

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

• There are books that I read years ago that enlivened things in me that haven't died yet.

  George Saunders

  Book, Years, Havens

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

• The greatest thing about writing a book is that at first it's all inchoate, but the more you work on it, the more the book teaches you its internal rules.

  George Saunders

  Book, Writing, Firsts

  Fuente: therumpus.net

• Si estoy escribiendo una historia y tú la estás leyendo, o viceversa, es que has sacado tiempo de tu día para coger mi libro. Creo que lo único que acabará con esa relación es que me sientas condescendiente contigo en el proceso.

  George Saunders

  Libro, Lectura, Escritura

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

• I sometimes think that I can't do the bigger thing that [Zadie Smith] do so beautifully, as in Swing Time, with so much world in it and so much rapturous paint thrown around. I don't think it would be possible to write a book on that scale with as much OCD as I have.

  George Saunders

  Libro, Escritura, Pensamiento

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

• There are some things fundamentally off about the stance of the book. And maybe that's okay; maybe every book is flawed, and great books, as flawed as they might be, articulate a moral argument that the reader then carries forward. The critique to this model is, of course, to ask: Should a book be ever so perfect that you come out of it with complete moral agreement that can be sustained?

  George Saunders

  Book, Agreement, Perfect

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

• You can see a whole book as a series of creating an expectation and then delivering a skew on that expectation so it's not totally satisfied.

  George Saunders

  Book, Creating, Expectations

  Interview With Jenny Shank, www.patheos.com. March 6, 2017.

• I'm not thinking much about overall themes or preoccupations or anything like that. Instead I'm just trusting that, if I'm working hard, various notions and riffs and motifs and so on are very naturally suffusing the stories and the resulting book.

  George Saunders

  Libro, Pensamiento, Historias

  Fuente: www.nationalbook.org

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