David Shields Quotes
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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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The trajectory of nearly all technology follows this downward and widening path: by the time a regular person is able to create his own TV network, it doesn't matter anymore that I have or am on a network.
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I felt like I was definitely seeing something - the falsely gorgeous images of war, painted, almost invariably, in 'Times' combat photos.
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I'm obviously aware that most people don't agree with me, that people like to escape into a coherent world that is apart from their own.
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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 ruling ethos of Seattle is forlorn apology for our animal impulses.
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I'm a sucker for sports movies.
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The only requirement of a fan or a patient is the surrender to authority.
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I disagree with everything John Updike has ever said.
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We judge athletes as if we all don't have trouble performing our various duties from time to time.
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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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Sports movies are often very good at dramatizing the intersection of public and private realms: the body politic.
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The only rule is never be bored.
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I'm just a totally selfish worker bee creating my little mini projects.