George Saunders Quotes

I love being honest and intimate with people. I love building community. I love emailing with readers.

I think relationships are work, but love is a gift.

I think of the audience the way I would think of another person: You meet someone, then you take it from there; you see what's interesting to both of you.

A relationship to me is never about the romance.

Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.

The best fights don't occur between strangers. They occur between friends who trust each other.

I knew I could write infinitely about relationships. That's the most beautiful, most confusing, most rewarding, most heartbreaking thing in our lives - and not just romantic relationships: that's all relationships.

A relationship is based on communication.

Empathy goes a long way, for sure. We cannot have healthy, loving, mutually respectful relationships without it. But we're not psychic. At least I'm not. And intuition can only take you so far, especially when a person's sense of safety, comfort, and self-worth hangs in the balance.

I feel like sarcasm is important in a relationship.

I think that our view of love and family informs our work, the way we empathize with people.

It is a beautiful thing to work on your relationship.

It's finding time for each other. That's the trick to any relationship, you know. Finding time to really be present for each other.

A relationship isn't just about space; it's about emotion and heart and all those good things.

I feel there's always time for relationship.

I have always been fascinated with romance and the fact that it is so effortless when we first fall in love but how it then becomes a conscious effort to stay creative and connected. Thats why I always say, 'Get wise: keep your romance alive.'

It sounds cliche, but communication is the number one way to keep a relationship solid.

I think there's such a fine line in a relationship. The role of imagination and privacy... how much space can you allow before that becomes distance? And similarly, imagination is empathy. That's how you achieve empathy. It's how you can be with another person and understand how they are in the world.

Relationships are bloody hard enough without people prodding them.

Life is a conversation. Make it a good one.

The more time you spend with somebody, the more your relationship grows.

Our lives depend on good communication. Good communication helps personal relationships, it helps bosses and employees get along better. We rely on it.

I think what you learn from relationships is that they are unpredictable.

It sounds so trite but in relationships, you have to communicate.

The first duty of love is to listen.