To me, the moment you're talking about nonfiction you're talking about reality.
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 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.
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…
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,…
To me, the moment you're talking about nonfiction you're talking about reality. - David Shields
With relatively few exceptions, the novel sacrifices too much, for me, on the altar of plot. - David Shields
With relatively few exceptions, the novel sacrifices too much, for me, on the altar of plot.
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.
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