David Shields Quotes
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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'm just a totally selfish worker bee creating my little mini projects.
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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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I disagree with everything John Updike has ever said.
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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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Your basic, well-made novel by Ian McEwan or Jonathan Franzen just bores me silly.
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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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The only rule is never be bored.
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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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I'm a sucker for sports movies.
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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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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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Sports movies are often very good at dramatizing the intersection of public and private realms: the body politic.
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The only requirement of a fan or a patient is the surrender to authority.