Toni Morrison seems to have a lot of faith in people - that's what I mean by gentle power.
George SaundersI think people have come to expect that in artistic representation; that every work of art should be a work of extravagant hope.
George SaundersWhile writing this book [Lincoln in the Bardo], [idea of inclusion] occurred to me, you either believe in the Constitution or you don't. If you do, it's intense in what it wants of us.
George SaundersA John Updike is a once-in-a-generation phenomenon, if that generation is lucky: so comfortable in so many genres, the same lively, generous intelligence suffusing all he did.
George Saunders