55 Quotes by David Means

History is delusional. Not just an illusion, it's a delusion. America is this giant country, so it has these big delusions, and history is where delusions play out.

We believe in cures; we're a quick-fix country, and we drive forward, and we eat up what we have extremely fast in terms of natural resources and also ideas and intellectual property. We're kind of wilfully stupid a lot of the time, anti-intellectual.

I think a good story can do as much as a novel; not the exact same thing, of course, but just as much artistically. They're different beasts, but to tackle an expansive country like the United States, you're either going to write a big novel, or go in to various points on the map and write stories or poems.

'The Rising' isn't Springsteen's masterpiece.

I've got deep roots in Kalamazoo, with a grandfather, Harold Allen, who was a big part of Upjohn Co. for many years as the corporate secretary and friends with W. E. Upjohn.

I studied English at the College of Wooster in Ohio, and I did an M.F.A. in Poetry at Columbia.

I don't think you could write fiction or create art unless you are sort of a positive person.

I think all good short stories are about what it means to tell a good story.

I like landscape, I guess. It's kind of a game to see how you can describe it.