George Saunders Quotes

All I know is that I am constantly intrigued by something I'm doing.

If you took love out of the equation, I wouldn't know what else to write about.

If you believe in your art, and you love what you do, that energy will go out, and people will respond.

I don't think you can measure your love or your passion for whatever you're working on.

I love the passion you go through while you're creating.

I look for stuff that I'm passionate about.

My students frequently ask what their next project should be. My advice: immerse yourself in the music you love and you will find what you want to do; you will discover your next project.

It is difficult to be creative and enthusiastic about anything for which we do not feel affection.

You should enter science because you are fascinated by it. That's what I did.

The greatest creators are as hungry to consume as they are to create.

I don't think you pick your projects; you just fall in love with it, and it just becomes something you have to do.

I feel like my job is to make impact, spread love, tell great stories, inspire people, that's what I am going to do.

People inspire me. Curiosity inspires me. Mystery inspires me.

The answer to all writing, to any career for that matter, is love.

What I need is to express my passion for life... It's movement I'm interested in, the life in me, the life in humanity.

I've always been a great believer that you have to keep producing new things in order to keep life interesting - not only for ourselves, but for the audience as well. That's really always been our principle and way of working.

I think people who are creative are the luckiest people on earth. I know that there are no shortcuts, but you must keep your faith in something Greater than You, and keep doing what you love. Do what you love, and you will find the way to get it out to the world.

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

The coming of the kids hasn't come out in my art yet.

But if you really love to write and you really love to tell stories and you really love to draw, you just have to keep doing it no matter what anybody says.

Never take no for answer, and try to make films that turn you on.

I can always be distracted by love, but eventually I get horny for my creativity.

What drove me and kept me going over the decades? If I had to use a single word, it would be 'curiosity.'

Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.

In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?