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Everything I write, I believe instinctively, is to some extent collage. Meaning, ultimately, is a matter of adjacent data.
— David Shields
The novel is dead. Long live the antinovel, built from scraps.
— David Shields
Genre is a minimum security prison,
— David Shields
With relatively few exceptions, the novel sacrifices too much, for me, on the altar of plot.
— David Shields
He who follows another will never overtake him.
— David Shields
My medium is prose, not the novel.
— David Shields
What is true for you in your private heart is true for all men.
— David Shields
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
I'm not interested in myself per se. I'm interested in myself as theme carrier, as host.
— David Shields
I've committed myself to serve my constituents in South Shields and I have committed myself to British politics.
— David Miliband
I'm interested in knowing the secrets that connect human beings. At the very deepest level, all our secrets are the same.
— David Shields
Let us hope the time will come when language is most efficiently used where it is being most efficiently misused.
— David Shields
Story seems to say that everything happens for a reason and I want to say, No, it doesn't.
— David Shields
Let a man go to the bottom of what he is and believe in that.
— David Shields
I'm wonderfully self-lacerating, probably to my character's detriment. I'm terribly open to critique.
— David Shields
To write only according to the rules laid down by masterpieces signifies that one is not a master but a pupil.
— David Shields
Deep down, you know you're him.
— David Shields
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
Samuel Johnson: A book should either allow us to escape existence or teach us how to endure it .
— David Shields
Anything processed by memory is fiction.
— David Shields
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
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
Every work, no matter how short or antilinear, needs momentum;
— David Shields
The only end of writing is to enable the reader better to enjoy life, or better to endure it -
— David Shields
For an impenetrable shield, stand inside yourself
— Henry David Thoreau
I wasn't born with a tie or with Mark Shields stapled to my left hip. I have another life.
— David Brooks
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
Momentum, in literary mosaic, derives not from narrative but from the subtle, progressive buildup of thematic resonances.
— David Shields
Every man has within himself the entire human condition.
— David Shields