David Shields Quotes

I've always liked this idea that writing should comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable to create trouble. The value of a work of art can be measured by the harm spoken of it. If you're not feeling that, then absolutely, why bother?

David Shields

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

WorkArtValueWritingYouCreate

There's an air of mystery around the Masons, but the reality is that they're mostly a bunch of veterans getting drunk in a lodge that they've built to look like a temple. It's just a bunch of guys trying to get away from their wives.

Jimmy Kimmel

RealityMysteryTryingDrunkLook

It's been amazing to step out of a bottle of ink on to an iPad. There's no better time than right now to embrace this fabulous sandpit of technology. Because intuitively, at the touch of a finger, most of it is possible.

Max Walker

TechnologyTimeStepAmazingBetter

If you think there is anything in theater that objectively exists without your point of view attached, you are wrong.

Anna D. Shapiro

ThinkViewYouPoint Of ViewWrong

I had been writing poems and stories since I learned to make letters. I had placed poems in a hardcover anthology at the age of 6. And I knew more big words than anyone else in the 10th grade.

Jeff Lindsay

AgeWordsWritingLettersMoreBig

If you're a New Yorker, there are two things that are most important: a car and a washer and dryer. Literally everyone else in America has those things! It's so weird to them that these are our luxuries. You can eat at Per Se every night, but I don't have a car or washer and dryer!

Michael Bastian

CarNightWeirdAmericaYouNew

I quite love sequins; I think it's the drag queen in me.

Sienna Miller

LoveQueenMeThinkDragI Think

A lot of guys that were trailblazers, if we were to go back to the actual time, were just really scared and had no choice, but the water's rushing in, and you either swim or sink.

Roddy Piper

TimeWaterYouBackChoiceGo

My dad and my mom convinced me to go into biomedical engineering because they said astronauts going to Mars will need life support systems.

Rony Abovitz

LifeSupportMeMomEngineeringGo

At my dinner parties, I like to serve cheese after the main course because you still have red wine in the glass, and it goes very well with the cheese. And that is what they do in France, and I think they set a good example.

Mary Berry

GoodRedDinnerThinkWineYou

In Stratford you either turn into an alcoholic or you better write.

Christopher Plummer

BetterYouWriteTurnEither

I like the idea of movies having a magic element. How many times have you seen an actor in a movie who you know only as the character? It's wonderful, isn't it?

Christian Bale

CharacterMagicYouKnowMovies

I am thankful that 'Jhalak' made me a professional dancer now from just a 'barat' dancer.

Ashish Sharma

ThankfulI AmMeProfessionalNow

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