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David Shields quotes: Everything I write, I believe instinctively, is to some extent collage. Meaning, ultimately, is a matter of adjacent data.

Everything I write, I believe instinctively, is to some extent collage. Meaning, ultimately, is a matter of adjacent data.

David Shields quotes: A great book allows me to leap over that wall: in a deep, significant conversation with another consciousness, I feel human and unalone.

A great book allows me to leap over that wall: in a deep, significant conversation with another consciousness, I feel human and unalone.

David Shields quotes: Genre is a minimum security prison,

Genre is a minimum security prison,

David Shields quotes: With relatively few exceptions, the novel sacrifices too much, for me, on the altar of plot.

With relatively few exceptions, the novel sacrifices too much, for me, on the altar of plot.

David Shields quotes: He who follows another will never overtake him.

He who follows another will never overtake him.

David Shields quotes: The target of Melanie Thernstrom's The Dead Girl is, I think, an interesting one:

The target of Melanie Thernstrom's The Dead Girl is, I think, an interesting one:

David Shields quotes: My medium is prose, not the novel.

My medium is prose, not the novel.

David Shields quotes: The absence of plot leaves the reader room to think about other things.

The absence of plot leaves the reader room to think about other things.

David Shields quotes: What is true for you in your private heart is true for all men.

What is true for you in your private heart is true for all men.

David Shields quotes: I'm wonderfully self-lacerating, probably to my character's detriment. I'm terribly open to critique.

I'm wonderfully self-lacerating, probably to my character's detriment. I'm terribly open to critique.

David Shields quotes: The novel is dead. Long live the antinovel, built from scraps.

The novel is dead. Long live the antinovel, built from scraps.

David Shields quotes: I'm interested in knowing the secrets that connect human beings. At the very deepest level, all our secrets are the same.

I'm interested in knowing the secrets that connect human beings. At the very deepest level, all our secrets are the same.

David Shields quotes: Let us hope the time will come when language is most efficiently used where it is being most efficiently misused.

Let us hope the time will come when language is most efficiently used where it is being most efficiently misused.

David Shields quotes: Story seems to say that everything happens for a reason and I want to say, No, it doesn't.

Story seems to say that everything happens for a reason and I want to say, No, it doesn't.

David Shields quotes: Resolution and conclusion are inherent in a plot-driven narrative.

Resolution and conclusion are inherent in a plot-driven narrative.

David Shields quotes: Let a man go to the bottom of what he is and believe in that.

Let a man go to the bottom of what he is and believe in that.

David Shields quotes: We're only certain ("certain only"?) about what we don't understand.

We're only certain ("certain only"?) about what we don't understand.

David Shields quotes: The only end of writing is to enable the reader better to enjoy life, or better to endure it -

The only end of writing is to enable the reader better to enjoy life, or better to endure it -

David Shields quotes: I'm not interested in myself per se. I'm interested in myself as theme carrier, as host.

I'm not interested in myself per se. I'm interested in myself as theme carrier, as host.

David Shields quotes: Every man has within himself the entire human condition.

Every man has within himself the entire human condition.

David Shields quotes: Momentum, in literary mosaic, derives not from narrative but from the subtle, progressive buildup of thematic resonances.

Momentum, in literary mosaic, derives not from narrative but from the subtle, progressive buildup of thematic resonances.

David Shields quotes: I don't know what's the matter with me, why I'm so adept at distance, why I feel so remote from things, why life feels like a rumor.

I don't know what's the matter with me, why I'm so adept at distance, why I feel so remote from things, why life feels like a rumor.

David Shields quotes: Our culture is obsessed with real events because we experience hardly any,

Our culture is obsessed with real events because we experience hardly any,

David Shields quotes: Candor is key - being willing to say what no one else is willing to say.

Candor is key - being willing to say what no one else is willing to say.

David Shields quotes: To me, the moment you're talking about nonfiction you're talking about reality.

To me, the moment you're talking about nonfiction you're talking about reality.

David Shields quotes: To write only according to the rules laid down by masterpieces signifies that one is not a master but a pupil.

To write only according to the rules laid down by masterpieces signifies that one is not a master but a pupil.

David Shields quotes: Every work, no matter how short or antilinear, needs momentum;

Every work, no matter how short or antilinear, needs momentum;

David Shields quotes: In my own little way, I feel like I'm part of a group of writers who care deeply about pushing the essay forward.

In my own little way, I feel like I'm part of a group of writers who care deeply about pushing the essay forward.

David Shields quotes: You're one of 6.5 billion people now on the planet, and 99.9 percent of your genes are the same as everyone else's.

You're one of 6.5 billion people now on the planet, and 99.9 percent of your genes are the same as everyone else's.

David Shields quotes: If I'm reading a book and it seems truly interesting, I tend to start reading back to front in order not to be too deeply under the sway of progress.

If I'm reading a book and it seems truly interesting, I tend to start reading back to front in order not to be too deeply under the sway of progress.

David Shields quotes: Anything processed by memory is fiction.

Anything processed by memory is fiction.

David Shields quotes: Samuel Johnson: A book should either allow us to escape existence or teach us how to endure it .

Samuel Johnson: A book should either allow us to escape existence or teach us how to endure it .

David Shields quotes: No one was dancing, least of all us, because I don't dance in public. My body's a private thing; it doesn't belong to the world at large.

No one was dancing, least of all us, because I don't dance in public. My body's a private thing; it doesn't belong to the world at large.

David Shields quotes: Deep down, you know you're him.

Deep down, you know you're him.