George Saunders Quotes

Sometimes my husband has to literally pull me away from the computer.

I don't tweet, Twitter, email, Facebook, look book, no kind of book. I have a land line phone at my home - that's the only phone I have. If my phone rang every day like everyone else around me, I would lose my mind.

In our world, we have so many ways we can escape with technology, like TV, Facebook, computers, text messaging and all that.

Sometimes you have to disconnect to stay connected. Remember the old days when you had eye contact during a conversation? When everyone wasn't looking down at a device in their hands? We've become so focused on that tiny screen that we forget the big picture, the people right in front of us.

Recently I was directing an episode of 'Glee' and I lost my cell phone - and I didn't have time to buy a new one for three weeks. Well, the first few days I was anxious as hell, suffered the delirium tremens, didn't think I could make it through, etc. Then something kind of curious happened - I began to feel great.

Kids have so much screen time, and it's a concern. I know how overloaded I can feel sometimes.

I don't think its good for the soul to invest too much of yourself in technology.

I find it is a bad habit to look at social media before bed, so I try to read something on paper - not on my phone - before I go to bed.

I could give up my phone any day. I don't need it.

Please watch a little less television. Maybe post a few less comments about the lunch you had today.

Under the deluge of minute-to-minute text conversations, emails, relentless exchange of media channels and passwords and apps and reminders and tweets and tags, we lose sight of what all this fuss is supposed to be about in the first place: ourselves.

I am not a big technology person. I don't go on the Internet really much at all. Drawing is like a zen thing; it's private, which in this day and age is harder to come by.

I try not to read the social networks too much. I find that way madness lies.

Your computer needn't be the first thing your see in the morning and the last thing you see at night.

Technology is notorious for engrossing people so much that they don't always focus on balance and enjoy life at the same time.

The moment of drifting into thought has been so clipped by modern technology. Our lives are filled with distraction with smartphones and all the rest. People are so locked into not being present.

I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren't consumed by technology and television.

I can live without endless television programmes and films just centered around computers. I can sort of live without that.

I've given up email. Well, almost. At the weekend I set up one of those auto-reply messages, informing my correspondents that I would no longer be checking my emails, and that instead they might like to call or write, as we used to in the olden days.

I dream of not having access to technology. I think it's a very wonderful time that we have found ourselves in, in terms of access to information, but alone time is better for some personalities than others. And I would very gladly give it up. I think I'd do very well.

When I'm doing work online or on the computer, it's one thing. When I want to read, I want to go elsewhere, and I want to be away from the screen.

If I was a parent or a kid, I would need a cell phone, and those things are invaluable, but my kids are out of the house now, and I am thrilled when I wake up to not have a cell phone, and feel like today is stretching out in front of me for 1,000 hours, as it seems.

Social media demands a lot of us on top of our already demanding lives. So let's disconnect as we need to and renew our interest and ourselves.

We spend our lives in front of screens, and cooking is one of the best antidotes.

When it comes to social media, there are just times I turn off the world, you know. There are just some times you have to give yourself space to be quiet, which means you've got to set those phones down.