193 Quotes by David Shields

We like non-fiction because we live in fictitious times.

The reigning mythology of the Northwest is obviously nature, and the reigning mythology of the Northeast corridor is culture.

I worry that I am not really a person anymore: I'm more of just a writing machine. I wonder what that has done to either my life and or my art.

When you're in New York City or Boston or something, you feel surrounded by cities and by culture.

In a way, it's taken me 25 years to acknowledge that I am from the West Coast. I was always sort of pretending I was bicoastal or that I really belonged on the East Coast.

Seattle has shaped me in a lot of ways.

Seattle is still more Caucasian than most medium-sized cities. The sort of psychosexual politics of white fandom in context of black athletes who are also both very rich and slightly angry is just, to me, bottomlessly fascinating.

The only rule is never be bored.

I would hate to be that person who is, you know, the mystery writer who has to deliver a book every year to publisher X.