George Saunders Quotes

I say what I need to, not a whole lot more.

I'm an enemy of exposition. I feel there's no need to overstate.

Simplicity is the glory of expression.

Never say more than is necessary.

I am a minimalist. I like saying the most with the least.

I always listen to what I can leave out.

Less is more, in prose as in architecture.

Always listen for what you can leave out.

Extreme complication is contrary to art.

Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?

To say more, is to say less.

I've always thought that less was a lot more.

I believe most things can be said in a few lines.

The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.

A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.

Directing my own writing, I see that I talk way too much, and everything can happen much sooner, with much less said about it.

Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.

Elegance is achieved when all that is superfluous has been discarded and the human being discovers simplicity and concentration: the simpler and more sober the posture, the more beautiful it will be.

Less is almost always better than more. Short words, short sentences, short speeches.

I usually go with the 'less is more' approach.

I cut up loads. I always want everything shorter, shorter, shorter.

If you have to go back and spell-check the text you're about to send, you're saying too much.

I kind of hate over-explanation in comics.

Simple goes a long way.

I always think less is more.