Best quotes by George Saunders on Story

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  • When you read a short story, you come out a little more aware and a little more in love with the world around you. What I want is to have the reader come out just 6 percent more awake to the world.
    - George Saunders
  • Back in 1992, I had my first story accepted by 'The New Yorker.'
    - George Saunders
  • Chekhov - shall I be blunt? - is the greatest short story writer who ever lived.
    - George Saunders
  • I wasted a lot of years working on my writing and very grandly saying, 'And now... My Novel!,' which would soon be reduced to a short story, then to a paragraph.
    - George Saunders
  • Early on, a story's meaning and rationale seem pretty obvious, but then, as I write it, I realize that I know the meaning/rationale too well, which means that the reader will also know it - and so things have to be ramped up.
    - George Saunders
  • That seems to be the definition of 'novel' for me: a story that hasn't yet discovered a way to be brief.
    - George Saunders