George Saunders Quotes

People who are alone all the time never grow. Those hermits just stay the same. It's only through relationships. Relationships change us and make us grow.

the only way to become a better writer is to become a better person.

I like this idea of becoming fully realised.

Out of frustration, I say things. Now, people listen to me so much I can say it under my breath and everybody hears me... I said in the past that I'm a work in progress, and I feel like I'm progressing.

My last boyfriend used to always tell me, 'Grow up.' But I say, Why?

I have not the slightest doubt that this form of individuation represents a higher stage in the evolution of mankind.

My daughter's 19. I'm not asking her to develop as an artist. I'm just asking her to develop as a full person, human being.

The two records are very different. I guess, on the second record, that's more where I was at. Its not that I'm more well-adjusted or anything, it's just that what I wanted to sing about maybe was more the way I wanted to feel.

If you have some respect for people as they are, you can be more effective in helping them to become better than they are.

Some relationships get easier as you get older, depending on what sort of person you are. I don't think I've got any better at them.

I used to be really insular, really introverted. I couldn't articulate myself.

I learned so much, and I feel I have grown as an actor and as a person.

I think the main thing which boygenius and I talk about ad nauseum, is that I feel like I just apologise for myself less.

Good films not only help me grow as an actor but as a human being.

I hope that I'm also maturing emotionally as a human being as things go on.

People need to express themselves. The more you do that, the better a person you become.

Writing and speaking and communicating, it's something important to me, and something I want to get better at.

If you treat men the way they are you never improve them. If you treat them the way you want them to be, you do.

If you have the words, there's always a chance that you'll find the way.

Try to think of writing as a gift - more complexly put: it is the curse and the cure.

The whole end of speech is to be understood.

I think love is like a learning process throughout your life. You learn how to be better at it and you learn more about it.

I'm happier in the way a guy gets happier when he starts to mature. It doesn't make things easier, but I'm so much better at handling them.

I compete only with myself, and I try to become a better human being. This is my goal.