The weird thing was that I went to Trump rallies thinking I was going to run into militant, right wing, racist people and mostly I didn't. That should have been a clue to me. The people I talked to were not, on the surface level, crazy. They were quite nice, quite normal, employed, and actually were wealthier than the press at that time would have led us to believe. At that time, the narrative was that these were all working poor but these were not working poor. That should've been a clue to me that this was a little bigger than I thought.
George SaundersIf you want to explore a political idea in the highest possible way, you embody it in the personal, because that's something that no one can deny.
George SaundersI always describe writing a story as throwing bowling pins in the air and then catching them.
George SaundersSocial media sometimes feels like a vehicle for one-dimensional sniping, more than true criticism.
George Saunders