With relatively few exceptions, the novel sacrifices too much, for me, on the altar of plot.
Genre is a minimum security prison. - David Shields
Genre is a minimum security prison.
- David Shields
The absence of plot leaves the reader room to think about other things. - David Shields
The absence of plot leaves the reader room to think about other things.
I'm wonderfully self-lacerating, probably to my character's detriment. I'm terribly open to critique. - David Shields
I'm wonderfully self-lacerating, probably to my character's detriment. I'm terribly open to critique.
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 narrati… - David Shields
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 narrati…
I don’t know what’s the matter with me, why I’m so adept at distance, why I feel so remote from things, why life feels like a rumor. - David Shields
I don’t know what’s the matter with me, why I’m so adept at distance, why I feel so remote from things, why life feels like a rumor.
With relatively few exceptions, the novel sacrifices too much, for me, on the altar of plot. - David Shields
Thomas Jefferson went through the New Testament and removed all the miracles, leaving only the teachings. Take a source, extract what appeals to you,… - David Shields
Thomas Jefferson went through the New Testament and removed all the miracles, leaving only the teachings. Take a source, extract what appeals to you,…
Our culture is obsessed with real events because we experience hardly any. - David Shields
Our culture is obsessed with real events because we experience hardly any.
To me, the moment you're talking about nonfiction you're talking about reality. - David Shields
To me, the moment you're talking about nonfiction you're talking about reality.
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