David Shields famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Anything processed by memory is fiction.
-- David Shields

#Memories #Fiction
To me, the moment you're talking about nonfiction you're talking about reality.
-- David Shields

#Reality #Talking #Nonfiction
I'm wonderfully self-lacerating, probably to my character's detriment. I'm terribly open to critique.
-- David Shields

#Character #Self #Critique
The beauty of reality-based art - art underwritten by reality hunger - is that it's perfectly situated between life itself and (unattainable) "life as art".
-- David Shields

#Art #Reality #Poetry
Copies have been dethroned; the economic model built on them is collapsing. In a regime of superabundant free copies, copies are no longer the basis of wealth. Now relationships, links, connections, and sharing are. Value has shifted away from a copy toward the many ways to recall, annotate, personalize, edit, authenticate, display, mark, transfer, and engage a work. Art is a conversation, not a patent office. The citation of sources belongs to the realms of journalism and scholarship, not art. Reality canâ€™t be copyrighted.
-- David Shields

#Art #Reality #Office
Story seems to say that everything happens for a reason and I want to say, No, it doesnâ€™t.
-- David Shields

#Everything Happens For A Reason #Stories #Want
A book should either allow us to escape existence or teach us how to endure it.
-- David Shields

#Book #Should #Existence
Our culture is obsessed with real events because we experience hardly any,
-- David Shields

#Real #Events #Culture
My medium is prose, not the novel.
-- David Shields

#Novel #Mediums #Prose
You're one of 6.5 billion people now on the planet, and 99.9 percent of your genes are the same as everyone else's.
-- David Shields

#People #Humanity #Genes
I donâ€™t know whatâ€™s the matter with me, why Iâ€™m so adept at distance, why I feel so remote from things, why life feels like a rumor.
-- David Shields

#Distance #Rumor #Matter

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