I think people have come to expect that in artistic representation; that every work of art should be a work of extravagant hope.
George Saunders[Reading Swing Time] made me a feel a little bit like when I used to read David [Foster] Wallace. Like, "I can't play that game. I wish I could, but I can't do it."
George SaundersWe have not been energetic enough - white people haven't - in pursuing racial equity.
George SaundersThe old and honorable American notion, that a person who works hard should be able to live in freedom and security, with dignity - seems to have taken on a secondary status.
George Saunders