Quote by George Saunders
I tend to foster drama via bleakness. If I want the reader to feel

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 hes made of sugar. – George Saunders

Other quotes by George Saunders

If you think of a work of fiction as a kind of scale model of the world, then the positive valences – where things turn out better than you thought they would – ought to be in there somewhere, too. – George Saunders

Category:
positive
Read Quote

I turned 54 this year and I find myself feeling like Im in a bit of a race to get down on paper the way I really feel about life – or the way it has presented to me. And because it has presented to me very beautifully, this is hard. It is technically very hard to show positive manifestations. – George Saunders

Category:
positive
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Birthday
category

I get uncomfortable when people give me presents and watch me open them. I dont have birthday parties, because the idea of a group of people singing and looking at me while Im blowing out candles gives me hives. – Brit Marling

Category:
Birthday

In 1993 my birthday present was a star on Hollywoods Walk of Fame. – Annette Funicello

Category:
Birthday

Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle. – Bob Hope

Category:
Birthday

My mom FedExes a red velvet cake she makes from scratch to me every birthday. – Molly Sims

Category:
Birthday

Random Quotes

Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. You are what you repeatedly do. – Shaquille ONeal

Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true. – Albert Schweitzer

Category:
Truth

Because power corrupts, societys demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases. – John Adams

Category:
power

It is difficult to realize how great a part of all that is cheerful and delightful in the recollections of our own life is associated with trees. – Wilson Flagg

Category:
Trees