David Shields Quotes

David Shields
American Author
Born: Jul 22, 1956
Art Life Me People Think You
Related authors: F. Scott Fitzgerald Frederick Douglass Helen Keller Henry David Thoreau Joyce Meyer Mark Twain Og Mandino Zig Ziglar
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
Work Me Trouble Bit Troublemaker Part Boundaries Comfortable Makes Am Jumps Being Interested
The ruling ethos of Seattle is forlorn apology for our animal impulses. David Shields
Animal Our Ruling Impulses Forlorn Apology Ethos Seattle
As a work gets more autobiographical, more intimate, more confessional, more embarrassing, it breaks into fragments. David Shields
Work Fragments Intimate Embarrassing More Gets Autobiographical Breaks
Our lives aren't prepackaged along narrative lines and, therefore, by its very nature, reality-based art - underprocessed, underproduced - splinters and explodes. David Shields
Art Nature Our Our Lives Along Narrative Lines Very Reality-Based Therefore Lives
If the bus driver is black, I thank him... when I get off at my spot, whereas I would never think of doing this if the driver were white. David Shields
Black White Think Would Driver Never Him Spot Doing Were Off Thank Get Whereas Bus Bus Driver
That's why people read books. You get to have the real conversation, as opposed to the pseudo-conversations we have in everyday life. David Shields
Life You Conversation People Everyday Life Everyday Books Read Real Opposed Get Why
When I was studying at the Iowa Writers School, I read a sports writer, Ron Maly, from the Des Moines Register. He was a good sports writer. I became real interested in the contrast between Lute Olson, who was the coach of Iowa at the time, and Ron Maly. David Shields
Time Good Sports School Writer Writers He Studying Between Iowa Read Became Real Contrast Ron Interested Register Coach Des Moines Who
A book makes claims of literary art. David Shields
Art Book Claims Makes Literary
When it's between the covers of a book, content is perceived to have literary substance - or more so that it might otherwise. David Shields
Book Otherwise Perceived More Between Content Covers Substance Literary Might
Sports - especially the NBA - function as a place where American society pretends to discuss and pretends to solve questions and historical agonies that can't possibly be solved within the realm of sports. David Shields
Sports Society Possibly Solve Solved Pretends Within Historical Questions Discuss American Where Place Realm American Society NBA Function
Reality isn't straightforward or easily accessible. David Shields
Reality Easily Accessible Straightforward
New artists, it seems to me, have to learn the mechanics of computing/programming and - possessing a vision unhumbled by technology - use them to disassemble/recreate the Web. David Shields
Me Technology Vision Possessing Web Seems New Learn Artists Them Use Mechanics
One of my clearest, happiest memories is of myself at fourteen, sitting up in bed, being handed a large glass of warm buttermilk by my mother because I had a sore throat, and she saying how envious she was that I was reading 'The Catcher in the Rye' for the first time. David Shields
Saying Time Myself Memories Mother First Reading Throat Had Envious Glass Catcher Catcher In The Rye Clearest Sore She Because First Time Bed How Handed Up Sitting Being Happiest Warm Large Fourteen
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
Work Me You Cause Three Whatever Lyric Constantly Poetic Writer Beating Had Written Head Exciting Towards Longer Genre Call Practicing Nonfiction Began Wall Essay Want Fiction Fiction Writer Literary Against Teaching Novels
Every writer from Montaigne to William S. Burroughs has pasted and cut from previous work. Every artist, whether it's Warhol or, you know, Dangermouse or whoever. David Shields
Work You Every William Previous Writer Know Pasted Artist Whether Warhol Cut Whoever
Your basic, well-made novel by Ian McEwan or Jonathan Franzen just bores me silly. David Shields
Me Bores Silly Jonathan Just Your Novel Basic
I disagree with everything John Updike has ever said. David Shields
Disagree Everything John Said Ever
I am truly bored with 99 per cent of conventional novels. I do think it's a somewhat desiccated form. David Shields
Think Bored Per Somewhat Am Truly Conventional Form Cent Novels
From Matthew Brady and the Civil War through, say, Robert Capa in World War II to people like Malcolm Brown and Tim Page in Vietnam. There was, seems to me, a kind of war-is-hell photography where the photographer is actually filming from life. David Shields
Life War Me Photography People World Say Kind Photographer Civil Brown Civil War Seems Through Like Robert Tim Malcolm Brady Matthew Where Vietnam Page Actually World War Filming World War II
I'm really interested in the new nonfiction. I think the hyper-digital culture has changed our brains in ways we cannot begin to fathom. David Shields
Culture Think Changed Fathom Our Ways We Cannot New Nonfiction Brains Begin Cannot Interested Really
I just can't read, the way other people can, these tediously elaborated books. David Shields
People Other Books Way Read Just
When you're in New York City or Boston or something, you feel surrounded by cities and by culture. David Shields
You Culture Cities City Something Boston Feel New Surrounded York New York New York City
Seattle has shaped me in a lot of ways. David Shields
Me Ways Shaped Lot Seattle
I have a teaching job that allows me to pay the rent and affords me to, frankly, write the books I want to write. David Shields
Me Job Pay Books Frankly Write Rent Affords Want Teaching
All good books wind up, I think, with the writer getting his teeth bashed in. David Shields
Good Wind Think Teeth Books Writer His Up Getting Bashed
I want the reader to join me on an intellectual and emotional journey into some major aspect of existence. David Shields
Journey Me Some Join Emotional Major Reader Existence Intellectual Want Aspect
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