Sara

“If they ever get around to building The Short Story Museum, I think they’d better carve this over the doorway: ‘A short story works to remind us that if we are not sometimes baffled and amazed and undone by the world around us, rendered speechless and stunned, perhaps we are not paying close enough attention.”
― George Saunders

“(A linked pair of writing dictums: “Don’t make things happen for no reason” and “Having made something happen, make it matter.”)”
― George Saunders, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain

“These days, it’s easy to feel that we’ve fallen out of connection with one another and with the earth and with reason and with love. I mean: we have. But to read, to write, is to say that we still believe in, at least, the possibility of connection.”
― George Saunders, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain

“We were perhaps not so unlovable as we had come to believe.”
― George Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo