George Saunders Quotes about Desire

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It was that impossible thing: happiness that does not wilt to reveal the thin shoots of some new desire rising from within it.

It was that impossible thing: happiness that does not wilt to reveal the thin shoots of some new desire rising from within it.

George Saunders

Impossible Things, Desire, Doe

George Saunders (2013). “Tenth of December: Stories”, p.36, Random House

I think in our time, you know, so much of the information we get is pre-polarized. Fiction has a way of reminding us that we actually are very similar in our emotions and our neurology and our desires and our fears, so I think it's a nice way to neutralize that polarization.

George Saunders

Nice, Thinking, Desire

"Conversation: George Saunders, Author of ‘Tenth of December’". Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. January 18, 2013.

What a powerful thing to know: That one's own desires are mappable onto strangers; that what one finds in oneself will most certainly be found in The Other.

George Saunders

Powerful, Desire, Stranger

George Saunders (2012). “The Brain-Dead Megaphone”, p.55, A&C Black