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David Shields Inspirational Quotes (13)

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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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The novel is dead. Long live the antinovel, built from scraps.
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Anything processed by memory is fiction.
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Thomas Jefferson went through the New Testament and removed all the miracles, leaving only the teachings. Take a source, extract what appeals to you, discard the rest. Such an act of editorship is bound to reflect something of the individual doing the editing: a plaster cast of an aesthetic-not the actual thing, but the imprint of it.
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A book should either allow us to escape existence or teach us how to endure it.
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In my own little way, I feel like I'm part of a group of writers who care deeply about pushing the essay forward.
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Genre is a minimum security prison.
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To me, the moment you're talking about nonfiction you're talking about reality.
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Resolution and conclusion are inherent in a plot-driven narrative.
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The absence of plot leaves the reader room to think about other things.
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Everything I write, I believe instinctively, is to some extent collage. Meaning, ultimately, is a matter of adjacent data.
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With relatively few exceptions, the novel sacrifices too much, for me, on the altar of plot.
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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.
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