28 Quotes by Jim Shepard

It turns out that our intuition is a greater genius than we are.

She thought she’d put up with however many years of stonewalling for a good reason, and she’d just figured out that as far as Castle Hubby went, she hadn’t even crossed the moat yet.

The longer you go by yourself the weirder you get, and the weirder you get the longer you go by yourself.

Class is the most taboo subject in America. The American media would rather talk about race or perversion or anything else considered taboo before class.

I do find stories – or literary fiction – an apt form for analyzing the world. And especially for trying to imagine the other. An agenda, again, that seems more important now than ever.

I spend most of my time reading non-fiction of all sorts. Then poetry. Then fiction to blurb. Then fiction I want to read.

I think fiction is all about the exercise of the empathetic imagination. Part of what I do is let the stuff I read about meld with what I have experienced.

I just go through life not doing anything to anyone, wreaking havoc left and right.

Disasters occur organically in my work, in that that’s the way my thinking tends, more than that’s what I start out by planning. I’m sort of a catastrophist.