193 Quotes by David Shields

It's true of so many fiction writers that I much prefer the essayistic work they did, whether it's David Foster Wallace's, or John Cheever's, or Nathaniel Hawthorne's.

We hunger for connection to a larger community.

I am exhausted by traditional memoir. I am exhausted by the architecture of the conventional novel.

I'm really interested in the new nonfiction. I think the hyper-digital culture has changed our brains in ways we cannot begin to fathom.

During Ronald Reagan's administration, '60 Minutes' ran a segment about the difference between Reagan's rhetoric and Reagan's actions. The show thought it had produced a hard-hitting piece; Reagan's team called up '60 Minutes' to thank them for the 15-minute commercial.

The difference between kitties and humans is that we are aware of our mortal condition, and the burden of consciousness is to evoke and embody and explore the coordinates of our condition.

I just can't read, the way other people can, these tediously elaborated books.

I'm just a totally selfish worker bee creating my little mini projects.

Our culture is obsessed with real events because we experience hardly any.