193 Quotes by David Shields

Sports - especially the NBA - function as a place where American society pretends to discuss and pretends to solve questions and historical agonies that can't possibly be solved within the realm of sports.

I used to feel that everything I know I learned through my lifelong struggle with stuttering; I now feel this way about my damn back.

Every quality I despise in George Bush is a quality I despise in myself. He is my worst self realized.

I try to be as honest as I possibly can about the contradictions within my own heart and thereby get to something 'true' and revealing and important about contemporary American culture and human nature.

Stoicism is of no use to me whatsoever. What I'm a big believer in is talking about everything until you're blue in the face.

Both of my parents were journalists, and my rebellion, such as it was, was to become a fiction writer.

Reality isn't straightforward or easily accessible.

New artists, it seems to me, have to learn the mechanics of computing/programming and - possessing a vision unhumbled by technology - use them to disassemble/recreate the Web.

A major focus of 'Reality Hunger' is appropriation and plagiarism and what these terms mean. I can hardly treat the topic deeply without engaging in it. That would be like writing a book about lying and not being permitted to lie in it.