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David Shields Quotes

In my twenties and early thirties, I wrote three novels, but beginning in my late thirties, I wearied of the mechanics of fiction writing, got interested in collage nonfiction, and have been writing literary collage ever since.

David Shields

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Beginning Writing Early Late Three

I define a 'good person' as somebody who is fully conscious of their own limitations. They know their strengths, but they also know their 'shadow' - they know their weaknesses. In other words, they understand that there is no good without bad. Good and evil are really one, but we have broken them up in our consciousness. We polarize them.

John Bradshaw

Good Words Shadow Broken Evil Bad

Now in my theater training I showed no aptitude at all.

Jeremy Irons

Training Now Theater Aptitude

It has given me a global vantage point, being the daughter of immigrants from China, who had nothing when they came here. And now I am leading a company. It speaks to something deep in me, the concept that you don't have to start with anything.

Andrea Jung

Daughter I Am Me Start Deep You

I'm a rapper and, obviously, hip hop rap is my main thing. But I also like to dive into different genres and kind of be a bit more experimental and open myself up a bit, whether that's taking influence from jazz or soul or electronic.

Little Simz

Myself Soul Influence Kind Jazz Rap

'A Fair Maiden' existed in notes and sketches for perhaps a year. When I traveled, I would take along with me my folder of notes - 'ideas for stories.' Eventually, I began to write it and wrote it fairly swiftly - in perhaps two months of fairly intense writing and rewriting. Most of my time writing is really re-writing.

Joyce Carol Oates

Time Me Ideas Writing Year Traveled

I have a Bible near my bed.

Donald Trump

Bible Bed Near

When Ben and I first got married and we first had kids, I felt I needed to prove we could still do it and I could still work separately from Ben and I could still work with him. I just let go of all of that now. I said to him, 'For me, a little bit goes a long way.'

Christine Taylor

Work Me Long Go Said Way

I've never spoken with Michelle Fields.

Corey Lewandowski

Never Fields Spoken Michelle

Curiosity is the process of asking questions, genuine questions, that are not leading to an ask for something in return.

Brian Grazer

Curiosity Process Questions Genuine

I won't do things for money. I can't.

Brie Larson

Money Things

In college, I had an early introduction to classical genetics from Professor Dan Lindsley, also an extraordinary teacher who influenced me greatly.

Bruce Beutler

Teacher College Me Early Genetics

Arthur Russell is very important to me on many levels, and when I read Tim Lawrence's biography on him, 'Hold on to Your Dreams,' one of the things I took away was: first thought, best thought. I live by that when I make my own music.

Arca

Dreams Live Music Your Dreams Best