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David Shields Quotes

Basically, I really love work that puts the reader into a kind of vertigo, into a real doubt, and a beautiful way to convey that, a really perfect metaphor for that, is to make the reader also experience doubt.

David Shields

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: July 22, 1956

Topics

Work Love Beautiful Experience Doubt

Guys, there's only one thing I hate more than bloggers who start sentences with 'guys' - and it's those mealy-mouth hipsters who crochet codpieces and their ye-olde-sideburned friends who pickle stuff and slaughter their own gluten-free goats.

Jill Soloway

Hate Start Friends More Goats Own

I don't make that hard and fast distinction between political and nonpolitical writing. I write about what bothers me.

John Edgar Wideman

Me Writing Political Fast Write

The worst mistake anyone can make is to perceive anyone else as lesser. The deeper you look into other souls - and writing is primarily an exercise in doing just that - the clearer people's inherent dignity becomes.

Andrew Solomon

Mistake People Writing Doing Look

We cannot afford to exclude any vision - any way of looking at the world - that human beings have invented for ourselves.

John Clute

Vision World Looking Way Human Any

I don't have a real attraction or interest to national politics, so I want to see Republicans win across the board in the state of Arizona, because those policies of lower taxes and lighter regulation and strong foreign policy are important to me.

Doug Ducey

Politics Me Win Strong Important

For Dylan, it seems, life is always the next gig. Changing pace and location are essential to his survival as an artist.

Douglas Brinkley

Life Survival Artist Always Location

The reason I go for the designers is because they make me feel good. It's about finding clothes that make you feel good as a woman. If I like it, I'll wear it. You have to go with your instincts and not be led by trends.

Cheryl Cole

Good Woman Me Feel Good Clothes You

As a vocal performance major, I went to school with a lot of singers who were cocky and not very nice.

Colleen Ballinger

School Performance Nice Cocky Who

There's nothing funnier than religion. Try explaining it to a kid. I had it all wrong when I was a kid.

Bonnie Hunt

Religion Wrong Nothing Try Kid Than

I still don't have a car. I still travel by public transport. I take autos to travel to and fro for recordings.

Arijit Singh

Car Travel Transport Take Still

'Fast And Furious 7' was quite random. I remember that it was the first holiday that I took in the entire year. I was in Mussoorie for two days with my friends when I got a call from my international PRs asking me to audition for 'Fast And Furious 7.'

Ali Fazal

Me Random Friends Remember Year

For a novelist, no matter what, it's a complete work, even if it's not published. But if you write a screenplay, and it's not performed, then it's a sad and frustrating experience.

Susan Isaacs

Work Sad Experience You Matter Even