David Shields quotes
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“Anything processed by memory is fiction.”
-- David ShieldsSource : David Shields (2010). “Reality Hunger”, p.57, Vintage
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“To me, the moment you're talking about nonfiction you're talking about reality.”
-- David ShieldsSource : Source: www.gq.com
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“I'm wonderfully self-lacerating, probably to my character's detriment. I'm terribly open to critique.”
-- David ShieldsSource : Source: www.gq.com
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“The beauty of reality-based art - art underwritten by reality hunger - is that it's perfectly situated between life itself and (unattainable) "life as art".”
-- David ShieldsSource : David Shields (2010). “Reality Hunger”, p.166, Vintage
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“Copies have been dethroned; the economic model built on them is collapsing. In a regime of superabundant free copies, copies are no longer the basis of wealth. Now relationships, links, connections, and sharing are. Value has shifted away from a copy toward the many ways to recall, annotate, personalize, edit, authenticate, display, mark, transfer, and engage a work. Art is a conversation, not a patent office. The citation of sources belongs to the realms of journalism and scholarship, not art. Reality can’t be copyrighted.”
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“Story seems to say that everything happens for a reason and I want to say, No, it doesn’t.”
-- David ShieldsSource : David Shields (2010). “Reality Hunger”, p.114, Vintage
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“A book should either allow us to escape existence or teach us how to endure it.”
-- David ShieldsSource : David Shields (2013). “How Literature Saved My Life”, p.197, Vintage
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“Our culture is obsessed with real events because we experience hardly any,”
-- David ShieldsSource : David Shields (2010). “Reality Hunger”, p.82, Vintage
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“My medium is prose, not the novel.”
-- David ShieldsSource : David Shields (2010). “Reality Hunger”, p.23, Vintage
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“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 ShieldsSource : David Shields (2008). “The Thing About Life is That One Day You'll Be Dead”, p.3, Vintage
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“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
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