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You, Dad, in the large scheme of things, don't matter. I, Dad, don't matter. We're vectors on the grids of cellular life.
- David Shields
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#Large
#Life
#Matter
#Things
So many of the things I talk about in 'Reality Hunger' seem to be the things that 'The Thing About Life' does - things like risk, contradiction, compression, mixing modes of attack from the memoristic gesture to data-crunching.
- David Shields
#Attack
#Hunger
#Life
#Reality
#Talk
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
#Against
#Me
#Three
#Whatever
#Work
I suspect the real reason the N.F.L. and N.B.A. don't want high schoolers and college underclassmen to play with their ball is that they don't want to jeopardize their relationship with National Collegiate Athletic Association, which serves as a sort of free minor league and unpaid promotional department for the pros.
- David Shields
#Ball
#Free
#Real
#Reason
#Relationship
Collage is not a kitchen sink; it's not a refuge for the compositionally disabled.
- David Shields
#Collage
#Kitchen
#Refuge
#Sink
I'm just a totally selfish worker bee creating my little mini projects.
- David Shields
#Bee
#Creating
#Just
#Little
#Selfish
Life, in my view, is simple, tragic, and frighteningly beautiful.
- David Shields
#Beautiful
#Life
#Simple
#Tragic
#View
I like having a paperback original. And until literature catches up with the culture - the violence, language, syntax, compression, concision, complexity and diversity that the Internet offers - books still make sense.
- David Shields
#Culture
#Diversity
#Internet
#Literature
My particular demigod is the Sonics point guard Gary Payton, who is one of the most notorious trash-talkers in the National Basketball Association. He's not really bad. He's only pretend bad - I know that - but he allows me to fantasize about being bad.
- David Shields
#Bad
#Know
#Me
#Point
#Who
I'm not super-polite or civil - I try to be civil, but I'm not into Seattle's niceties, and I'm not hugely wired into Seattle's natural beauty.
- David Shields
#Beauty
#Natural Beauty
#Natural
#Try
All art is theft.
- David Shields
#Art
#Theft
I couldn't tell a story if my life depended on it. I'm the world's worst joke-teller.
- David Shields
#Life
#My Life
#Story
#World
#Worst
Good poets borrow; great poets steal.
- David Shields
#Borrow
#Good
#Great
#Poets
#Steal
The ruling ethos of Seattle is forlorn apology for our animal impulses.
- David Shields
#Animal
#Apology
#Our
#Ruling
#Seattle
A major focus of 'Reality Hunger' is appropriation and plagiarism and what these terms mean. I can hardly treat the topic deeply without engaging in it. That would be like writing a book about lying and not being permitted to lie in it.
- David Shields
#Focus
#Lie
#Plagiarism
#Reality
#Treat
I'm very fond of this phrase: 'Collage is not a refuge for the compositionally disabled.' If you put together the pieces in a really powerful way, I think you'll let a thousand discrepancies bloom.
- David Shields
#Bloom
#Collage
#Powerful
#Together
#Way
I believe in copyright, within limited precincts. But I also believe in fair use, public domain, and especially transformation.
- David Shields
#Believe
#Fair
#I Believe
#Transformation
In many senses, creativity and 'plagiarism' are nearly indivisible.
- David Shields
#Creativity
#Many
#Plagiarism
#Senses
I am exhausted by traditional memoir. I am exhausted by the architecture of the conventional novel.
- David Shields
#Architecture
#Exhausted
#I Am
#Memoir
I think the core of fans' relationship is one that vacillates schizophrenically and mercurially from reverence to resentment. Fans fetishize the players' athletic genius and both deify it and demonize it; witness the way awe turns into anger whenever a player holds out or flips off the offensive coordinator.
- David Shields
#Anger
#Fans
#Genius
#Relationship
#Way
Take Jonathan Franzen's work: it's just old wine in new bottles. They say he's the Tolstoy of the digital age, but there can only be a Tolstoy of the Tolstoyan age.
- David Shields
#Age
#Digital
#New
#They Say
#Work
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