George Saunders Quotes About Writing

• El humor es lo que ocurre cuando nos dicen la verdad más rápida y directamente de lo que estamos acostumbrados.

  George Saunders

  Escribir, Usado, Sucede

  George Saunders (2012). "El megáfono de la muerte cerebral", p.80, A&C Black.

• The chances of a person breaking through their own habits and sloth and limited mind to actually write something that gets out there and matters to people are slim.

  George Saunders

  Writing, People, Sloth

  George Saunders (2013). “Tenth of December”, p.21, A&C Black

• Intelligent, heartfelt stories that tell a whole new set of truths about growing up American. Julie Orringer writes with virtuosity and depth about the fears, cruelties, and humiliations of childhood, but then does that rarest, and more difficult, thing: writes equally beautifully about the moments of victory and transcendence.

  George Saunders

  Growing Up, Writing, Intelligent

• I'm always aware of writing around things I can't do, and I've come to think that that's actually what 'style' is - an avoidance of your deficiencies.

  George Saunders

  Escribir, pensar, estilo

• I have finally realized that, you know, it's not a given that my lifespan will accommodate my writing aspirations.

  George Saunders

  Writing, Given, Aspiration

  Interview with Andy Ward, www.slate.com. January 7, 2013.

• Me encanta escribir historias porque puedo (más o menos, en ocasiones) hacerlo de verdad. Esa es la verdad. Me gusta la idea de que un cuento es una especie de sitio para hacer efectos lingüísticos geniales, un sitio para celebrar el lenguaje y, por tanto, el mundo. Y la brevedad es parte del reto. Me gustan las historias porque las entiendo: sé cómo hacer belleza, o algo parecido a la belleza, de ese modo.

  George Saunders

  Escritura, Ideas, Retos

  Fuente: und.edu

• I came away believing and really deeply troubled by is the extent to which you can have two well-intentioned people talking in a friendly spirit and you get to a point where the two mutual mythologies just don't intersect. So kind of the next piece I'd like to write or think about is how did this left-right divide get so weird and codified.

  George Saunders

  Creer, Escribir, Pensar

  "In Search For Answers, Author George Saunders Covers Trump Campaign". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Lynn Neary, www.npr.org. July 9, 2016.

• 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

• Honestly, the choice is: I can be a cheerful person, more awake to correction, more of a force for good ... when I'm writing. Or I can be the opposite of all those things, when I'm not writing.

  George Saunders

  Writing, Opposites, Choices

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

• All I really know in nonfiction is that when I come home, I've got all these notes and I'm trying to figure out what actually happened to me. I usually kind of know what happened, but as you work through the notes, you find that certain scenes write well and some don't even though they should. Those make a constellation of meaning that weirdly ends up telling you what you just went through. It's a slightly different process, but still there's mystery because when you're bearing down on the scenes, sometimes you find out they mean something different than what you thought.

  George Saunders

  Home, Writing, Mean

  Fuente: therumpus.net

• If you understand writing as primarily engaging an imaginary reader, well, you've kind of been doing that your whole life. You walk into a room and you're engaging with imaginary strangers because you don't actually know who they are. For me, it was really empowering to say: this is a branch of entertainment and communication and engagement, as opposed to jumping over some perceived literary high bar. That was the buzzkill.

  George Saunders

  Communication, Writing, Jumping

  Fuente: therumpus.net

• One lesson I learned the hard way, early in my career, was that if I tried to write to be smart or to convey a theme or from some existing plan, the result was usually pretty boring. My intuitive move, whenever I'm considering writing something, is to steer towards what feels enjoyable. Another way of saying it is, you just try to avoid the "sucky." If you start to think of a story and a way to tell it, and your reaction is kind of like, Ugh, that's going to be hard, then you don't want to do that.

  George Saunders

  Smart, Moving, Writing

  "George Saunders: It's All About Suckage-Avoidance". Interview With Doug Polisin, www.audible.com. March 15, 2017.

• I think that's one of the maybe under-discussed aspects of process - the difference between a good writing day and a bad one is the quality of the split-second decisions you made.

  George Saunders

  Writing, Thinking, Differences

  "Gchatting with George Saunders". Interview with Katherine Bernard, www.theparisreview.org. December 23, 2013.

• I'm not sure I would call it agony but there is a kind of cyclic frustration. You get one story right and then here comes another one. When does that end? What I'm trying to do is get it to end right now, by recognizing that that cycle is writing. That is: trying to understand the frustrations and setbacks (and agony) as part of a bigger chess game you are playing with art itself.

  George Saunders

  Art, Writing, Frustration

  Interview with Andy Ward, www.slate.com. January 7, 2013.

• To me, the process of writing is just reading what I've written and - like running your hand over one of those mod glass stovetops to find where the heat is - looking for where the energy is in the prose, then going in the direction of that. It's an exercise in being open to whatever is there.

  George Saunders

  Running, Reading, Writing

  The Missouri Review Interview, www.missourireview.com. June 1, 2001.

• I think it's basically the same game, although with a public figure like [Donald] Trump I think you are bound to consider the public persona rather than the private one. At least that was the case with that piece of writing.

  George Saunders

  Escribir, pensar, jugar

  Fuente: sojo.net

• From the beginning [of the Lincoln in the Bardo], I actually had it in mind not to write a novel. I'd kind of gotten past that point where I felt bad for never having written a novel, even to where I felt really good about it, like I was a real purist.

  George Saunders

  Real, Writing, Past

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

• When I'm not writing, I tend to get depressed and a little bit surly. And then when I'm writing, suddenly I feel enlivened. Now the only thing as I'm getting older that I notice is that it's a pattern.

  George Saunders

  Writing, Getting Older, Patterns

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I don't know how you feel, but I feel like writing, clarity of thought, and truth have been validated because we see what happens when we get lax in those areas. I'm excited by the idea that writers like us can actually reach out and try to understand and prod and agitate the people who are in support of Trump because we have the tools to do it. We're language people and we're idea people.

  George Saunders

  Escritura, Ideas, Personas

  Fuente: therumpus.net

• As a young kid I assumed that everybody was sort of on the same wavelength as I was and then I found out in a lot of small ways that that wasn't the case. It's sort of a mixed blessing. My mind is like a puppy. It goes all over. I guess writing fiction was a way of harnessing that. I could hook a puppy up to a treadmill and get something out of it.

  George Saunders

  Writing, Kids, Blessing

  Fuente: therumpus.net

• All along, my mantra was: Don't write unless it contributes to the emotion, and do anything you do in service of the emotion only.

  George Saunders

  Writing, Emotion

  Fuente: www.omnivoracious.com

• A work of art is something produced by a person, but is not that person — it is of her, but is not her. It’s a reach, really — the artist is trying to inhabit, temporarily, a more compact, distilled, efficient, wittier, more true-seeing, precise version of herself — one that she can’t replicate in so-called ‘real’ life, no matter how hard she tries. That’s why she writes: to try and briefly be more than she truly is.

  George Saunders

  Arte, Real, Escritura

• I've always wanted to write energetic, atypical sentences, i.e., sentences that were not normal or bland.

  George Saunders

  Writing, Normal, Energetic

  Interview with Andy Ward, www.slate.com. January 7, 2013.

• As far as which writers embody this form of gentle power - Tobias Wolff, for sure. His persona and his writing both share an easy, capacious confidence that says he has faith in his readers.

  George Saunders

  Writing, Have Faith, Tobias

  "George Saunders on Trump, Mystery, and Why He Rejects Social Media". Interview with Catherine Woodiwiss, sojo.net. August 30, 2016.

• I don't really write beautifully naturally, unlike some people.

  George Saunders

  Writing, People

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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