American - Author | July 22, 1956 -
I am exhausted by traditional memoir. I am exhausted by the architecture of the conventional novel.
David Shields
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I'm really interested in the new nonfiction. I think the hyper-digital culture has changed our brains in ways we cannot begin to fathom.
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I just can't read, the way other people can, these tediously elaborated books.
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The reigning mythology of the Northwest is obviously nature, and the reigning mythology of the Northeast corridor is culture.
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Seattle has shaped me in a lot of ways.
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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.
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The only rule is never be bored.
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I would hate to be that person who is, you know, the mystery writer who has to deliver a book every year to publisher X.
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I have a teaching job that allows me to pay the rent and affords me to, frankly, write the books I want to write.
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All good books wind up, I think, with the writer getting his teeth bashed in.
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Centenarians tend to be assertive, suspicious, and practical.
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All human beings have bodies. All bodies are mortal. Yours, too, is one of these bodies.
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