Sara

“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

“The Russians, when I found them a few years later, worked on me in the same way. They seemed to regard fiction not as something decorative but as a vital moral-ethical tool. They changed you when you read them, made the world seem to be telling a different, more interesting story, a story in which you might play a meaningful part, and in which you had responsibilities.”
― George Saunders, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain

“There is no world save the one we make with our minds, and the mind’s predisposition determines the type of world we see.”
― George Saunders, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain

“(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