David Shields Quotes
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I would hate to be that person who is, you know, the mystery writer who has to deliver a book every year to publisher X.
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I'm just a totally selfish worker bee creating my little mini projects.
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Immanence, or complicity, allows the writer to be a kind of shock absorber of the culture: to reflect back its 'whatness,' refracted through the sensibility of his consciousness.
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A sports writer is a stylist of some kind. He is trying to convey mood and character and emotion.
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The key thing for an intellectually rigorous writer to come to grips with is the marginalization of literature by more technologically sophisticated and thus more visceral forms.
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Art, like science, progresses, and to me it's bizarre that a lot of acclaimed and popular and respectable books are not advancing the art form.
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The individual has now risen to the level of a mini-government or mini-corporation. Via YouTube and Twitter, each of us is our own mini-network.
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You could easily do a book of Marshawn Lynch's quotes, which have a quite serious political pushback. I think he's really amazing.
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The only rule is never be bored.
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Your basic, well-made novel by Ian McEwan or Jonathan Franzen just bores me silly.
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I am interested in work that jumps boundaries, and that makes trouble. Part of me is comfortable with that: with being a bit of a troublemaker.
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The only requirement of a fan or a patient is the surrender to authority.
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I began as a fiction writer - I had written three novels in my 20s and 30s. But as my work has gravitated towards literary nonfiction, or lyric essay or poetic essay, whatever you want to call it, I'm constantly beating my head against the wall 'cause I'm teaching a genre that's no longer that exciting to me and that I'm no longer practicing.
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Sports movies are often very good at dramatizing the intersection of public and private realms: the body politic.