Quotes by David Shields

David Shields

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

Book

Existence

Should

Anything processed by memory is fiction.

Fiction

Memories

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.

Art

Economic Models

Reality

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

Believe

Data

Writing

Genre is a minimum security prison.

Genre Is

Minimum

Prison

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.

Distance

Matter

Rumor

I take literature as a really serious human activity. It’s not just a playful thing. It can be hilarious and wonderful and performative, but I think it’s really serious.

Literature

Serious

Thinking

I’m not interested in collage as the refuge of the composition-ally disabled. I’m interested in collage as (to be honest) an evolution beyond narrative.

Allies

Honest

Narrative

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

Character

Critique

Self

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.

Book

Order

Reading

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Allies

Art

Believe

Book

Care

Character

Critique

Culture

Data

Distance

Economic Models

Editing

Events

Everything Happens For A Reason

Existence

Fiction

Genes

Genre Is

Honest

Humanity

Labels

Literature

Littles

Long

Matter

Mediums

Memories

Minimum

Miracle

Momentum

Mosaics

Narrative

Nonfiction

Novel

Order

People

Plot

Poetry

Prison

Prose

Reading

Real

Reality

Resolution

Rooms

Rumor

Sacrifice

Scrap

Self

Serious

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Quotes by David Shields

David Shields

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

Anything processed by memory is fiction.

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

Genre is a minimum security prison.

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 take literature as a really serious human activity. It’s not just a playful thing. It can be hilarious and wonderful and performative, but I think it’s really serious.

I’m not interested in collage as the refuge of the composition-ally disabled. I’m interested in collage as (to be honest) an evolution beyond narrative.

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

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.

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