George Saunders Quotes

I used to joke about this but I've recently realized that I really believe it: I spent many years training myself to write very slowly for pretty good money. So the idea of writing really quickly for free offends me.

The influence of social media is unbelievable. It's sad to see - it's a fake life that some people live.

When you make a decision to write according to a set schedule and really stick to it, you find yourself writing very fast. At least I do.

I feel conflicted about my relationship with social media.

Good salespeople sell value and social media is the best place to find this value because of its transparency.

Whether you are launching a start-up or leading an established company, you should start establishing your social media presence if you haven’t already.

I am a huge believer in social media.

A lot of people can figure out the social media aspect of it, or the merchandising aspect, or whatever and get enough momentum to start a career. To sustain it, you have to keep writing and you have to keep creating.

I took my life in my hands and social media has just helped me do that more.

A lot of brands just push messages out on social media, but that's not what social is about.

Social media is great because you can get information out there quick or you can use it as a ministry tool, but when you're on it all the time and you're not spending time with people and you're not sitting there looking at someone in the eyes and asking, "How are you doing?" that's when it's out of balance.

I actually quite like [social media]. It's spontaneous, you don't really have to commit to it and I enjoy the interaction. Also, I have never sworn on there, not once.

Social media really grew up.

I'm estranged from social media and I don't really deal with it. I tried to work on a website and it took up all my time. People wanted me to have a Twitter account and I spent the whole day figuring out what would be the first message. I still haven't wrapped my head around it.

I'm not actually pop culture or social media savvy. I really didn't know what Twitter was when I created an account.

You're not surviving if you're not on social media, period.

I like to say I have Internet Immorality. From the beginning of the "internet famous" era until now, I've evolved and went with the flow of change, always changing my makeup looks, fashion, and vision. My brand has grown so fast from social media and I don't know how life would be without be logging onto MySpace for the first time 10 years ago!

Look at social media. It's what we do, right?

I feel like Twitter was tailor-made for me, because I can do short spurts all day long. I loved my blog, but doing daily, then thrice weekly entries was really time consuming. 140 characters is perfect.

I really don't have time "to Twitter," it's not something that should grab your day. That's a big misconception, actually, about the whole service. You don't go out of your way to tweet, you just post when you've got something. Hopefully, not while you're driving. It complements your life more than takes over your life.

I love Twitter. It doesn't keep me from writing and I think it's a really convenient scapegoat when the truth is that the real issue is self-control. I am totally fine admitting i have none. I'm not going to blame Twitter for affecting my writing. And also, Twitter doesn't affect my writing.

I write every day for most of the work day, and I try to write 2,500 words per day... If I don't make it a routine and treat it like a job, I'd never get anything done.

Weirdly the writing experience has not really changed that much except it used to be that I was busy because I had to work a couple of jobs to earn money, so I didn't have time to write.

It's a delicate thing for me, with how involved I am in social media and being a part of people's lives in a way that they want me to.

Being a writer now is about so much more than writing. There's publishing, touring, marketing, web presence.