George Saunders
George Saunders
George Saundersis an American writer of short stories, essays, novellas and children's books. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, McSweeney's and GQ. He also contributed a weekly column, American Psyche, to the weekend magazine of The Guardian until October 2008...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth2 December 1958
CityAmarillo, TX
CountryUnited States of America
kindness thinking simple
I think kindness is a sort of gateway virtue - having that simple aspiration can get you into deep water very quickly - in a good way.
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It is not a good way to promote Muncie. There are ways to have a good time without breaking the law.
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"Kindness" can mean a lot of different things. In this case, I felt I had to present his [Donald Trump's] supporters in as fair a light as possible - many of them hadn't been interviewed before and that entailed some interviewer-courtesy in the editing and so on.
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As for "toothy kindness" - I think all traditions are full of this sort of tough kindness. If someone is on a wrong or dull path, and someone else startles them into awareness of that, then that's a blessing. And the method by which the startle is obtained might be anger, or satire, or an intentionally applied indifference. But that is, of course, a fine line.
kindness mean fearless
My understanding of kindness is that we are hoping to be truly beneficial in every situation, and that this desire means a whole suite of things: being nicer, sure, but also being more aware, more present, more articulate, more fearless, less habituated, etc., etc. And sometimes even being firm, or having an edge, or even being angry.
kindness regret advice
What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness.
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I understand what something short should be like. I understand beauty in that form. If I start extending, somehow I kind of lose my bearings.
higher-ground luck needs
If a writer understands his work as something that originates with him but then, with any luck, gets away from him, then what he needs is someone who can grasp the potential of the piece and lead him to that higher ground.
nice writing feelings
There's a really nice moment in the life of a piece of writing where the writer starts to get a feeling of it outgrowing him - or he starts to see it having a life of its own that doesn't have anything to do with his ego or his desire to 'be a good writer.
kindness collaboration
Err in the direction of kindness.
couple years numbers
The number of rooms in a fictional house should be inversely proportional to the years during which the couple living in that house enjoyed true happiness.
mecca world bigs
It's a big world, and I really like it.
kindness fiction god-life
As a fiction writer, one of things you learn is God lives in specificity. You know, human kindness is increased as we pursue specificity.
nice thinking desire
I think in our time, you know, so much of the information we get is pre-polarized. Fiction has a way of reminding us that we actually are very similar in our emotions and our neurology and our desires and our fears, so I think it's a nice way to neutralize that polarization.