George Saunders Quotes

He brought imagination to the story of the Creation.

I'd probably play games obsessively if I didn't write, although I admit I don't read novels partly because I don't enjoy it, not just because it's the wrong side of the creator-consumer barrier for me. I'm a visual writer. I think in moving 3D images and write down what I observe.

I could come up with 50 stories that I am thinking about.

I don't want to be remembered as a writer. I would rather be remembered as a storyteller.

The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers.

I write fiction. I make things up, it's what I do.

I wanted always to be a storyteller of the fullest expression.

I guess I'm just inspired to tell stories.

I've sort of always been obsessed with telling stories and making things up.

My life isn't very racy or exciting so I make things up, tell stories. I like telling stories.

There are so many avenues to explore and stories to tell. It's just about finding new ways of telling them.

I take inspiration from my life but only twenty per cent is real the rest is all made up.

I had these cheap alien toys and I made up stories for them. They were space pirates. They didn’t have names so I made up names. These were the first stories I wrote. Even as a little kid I was thinking about torture.

It is at least worth arguing that there is a modicum of the creative novelist in all of us, and that this absorption with how men get out of difficulties, single-handedly and alone if possible, is the stuff of which we weave the warp and woof of our own better dramatic imaginings.

To me, writing is fun. It doesn't matter what you're writing, as long as you can tell a story.

I loved and still love watching words flower into sentences and sentences blossom into stories.

I just want to get on and tell stories.

It would appear that I just love writing many different stories.

I look for stories everywhere.

After putting the kids to bed, I would think about what I wanted to write.

Those who have been writing literature have not been writing life.

I feel like you are allowed in fiction to embrace imagination and try to enter other worlds. And I feel like you should push yourself to try to persuade your reader that you have the authority to engage with people who, you know, lived in the past, who live in the future, other genders, other places, other cultures.

I love the magic of stories and the power of stories.

What is the difference between the novelist and the liar? At some moments, I have often wondered.

I love telling a story through song. It helps me take it to a deeper place.