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I like art with a visible string to the world.
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I am truly bored with 99 per cent of conventional novels. I do think it's a somewhat desiccated form.
David Shields
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I'm a sucker for sports movies.
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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.
David Shields -
The only rule is never be bored.
David Shields -
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.
David Shields -
I like some of Annie Proulx, some of those very brief stories of hers. And I love J. M. Coetzee's Elizabeth Costello. I like Geoff Dyer. I also liked W. G. Sebald, especially his book 'The Emigrants'.
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I'm just a totally selfish worker bee creating my little mini projects.
David Shields
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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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The only requirement of a fan or a patient is the surrender to authority.
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Sports movies are often very good at dramatizing the intersection of public and private realms: the body politic.
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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.
David Shields -
Your basic, well-made novel by Ian McEwan or Jonathan Franzen just bores me silly.
David Shields -
I disagree with everything John Updike has ever said.
David Shields
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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.
David Shields