George Saunders Quotes About Speed

Quotes about: Speed

• According to me, your life is going to be a gradual process of becoming kinder and more loving. Hurry up. Speed it along. Start right now.

  George Saunders

  Graduation, Becoming, Life Is

  George Saunders (2014). “Congratulations, by the Way: Some Thoughts on Kindness”, p.52, A&C Black

• Since, according to me, your life is going to be a gradual process of becoming kinder and more loving: Hurry up. Speed it along. Start right now. There’s a confusion in each of us, a sickness, really: selfishness. But there’s also a cure. So be a good and proactive and even somewhat desperate patient on your own behalf - seek out the most efficacious anti-selfishness medicines, energetically, for the rest of your life.

  George Saunders

  Medicine, Confusion, Advice

  George Saunders’ Commencement Address at Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York, 6thfloor.blogs.nytimes.com. July 31, 2013.

• More and more these days what I find myself doing in my stories is making a representation of goodness and a representation of evil and then having those two run at each other full-speed, like a couple of PeeWee football players, to see what happens. Who stays standing? Whose helmet goes flying off?

  George Saunders

  Football, Running, Couple

  "George Saunders's Wild Ride". Interview with Deborah Treisman, www.newyorker.com. December 12, 2010.

• Stories, as much as we like to talk about them, retrospectively, as emanations of theme or worldview or intention, occur primarily as technical objects when they're being written. Or at least they do for me. They're the result of thousands of decisions made at speed during revision.

  George Saunders

  Decision, Stories, Revision

  "On 'Tenth of December': an interview with George Saunders". Interview with Deborah Treisman, www.newyorker.com. January 24, 2013.

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