George Saunders Quotes

There are probably many, many people who are better writers than me.

I was a terrible writer at first.

You think you have some stable talent that will show no matter what you're writing, and if it doesn't seem to be getting across to the audience once, you can't imagine that moment when it suddenly will. Gradually, gradually you gain that confidence.

I can't write. I can handle bits of simple-minded advert copy or a poster slogan, so answering questions is about all I'm good for.

I wasn't that great a chef, and I don't think I'm that great a writer.

Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego.

I have always thought that writers come with any variety of attributes. Some are capable and some aren't.

I never thought I could write fiction.

I don't think I'm a particularly good writer, and I'm not terribly insightful.

I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.

Generals who can write always make me nervous.

I always had a gift with writing. I can really write. I always felt like I can write movies or somehow get into that.

Writing is the only thing I am good for.

I'm not Cormac McCarthy, but I can get my point across in a thousand words.

I can't write - I don't even know how to punctuate.

I'm a lousy writer, and it shows when I try to write poetry.

I'm not a good business person when it comes to my writing.

I never write. Never! I do not even remember if I can write.

I'm not a writer. I haven't written anything.

Good writing comes from good talent.

People just don't know how to write down a simple easy line. It's difficult for them; it's like trying to keep a hard-on while drowning - not many can do it.

Everything you think you're supposed to feel even, or do. When it doesn't match up with what everything that the culture is telling you to do, you feel like a failure.

What had happened was this. When still young, I had gotten the idea from somewhere that I might be able to write... Maybe the deadly notion came from liking to read so much. Maybe I was in love with the image of being a writer. Whatever. It had been a really bad idea. Because I couldn't write, at least not by the bluntly and frequently expressed standards of anyone in a position to offer any encouragement and feedback.

I am a person who always feels like I am not doing the right thing because there's always so many things that need to get done.

It takes me awhile to find something that I'm passionate about. I'm reading a lot and thinking a lot, and torturing myself a lot because I'm feeling really guilty for not writing something today.