George Saunders

I turned 54 this year and I find myself feeling like I’m in a bit…

We try, we fail, we posture, we aspire, we pontificate – and then we age, shrink…

The scariest thought in the world is that someday I’ll wake up and realize I’ve…

My habit would have been to veer towards the dark – to prove I was something…

I still believe that capitalism is too harsh and I believe that, even within that…

The cool parts – the parts that have won Dubai its reputation as ‘the Vegas of…

A John Updike is a once-in-a-generation phenomenon, if that generation is lucky…

Whatever your supposed politics are – left, right – if you put it in a human connection…

If you haven’t read you don’t have the voice. The lack of voice eliminates experience…

The best thing that ever happened to me is that nothing happened in writing. I…

If you think of a work of fiction as a kind of scale model of…

I tend to foster drama via bleakness. If I want the reader to feel sympathy…

I’m finding, as I get older, that I’m not much of a believer in redemption…

The word ‘funny’ is a bit like the word ‘love’ – we don’t have enough words…

If death is in the room, it’s pretty interesting. But I would also say that…