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Famous David Shields Quotes
“To me, the moment you're talking about nonfiction you're talking about reality.”
Source: Reality Hunger
“Resolution and conclusion are inherent in a plot-driven narrative.”
Source: Reality Hunger: A Manifesto
Source: Remote: Reflections on Life in the Shadow of Celebrity
“The absence of plot leaves the reader room to think about other things.”
Source: Reality Hunger
“With relatively few exceptions, the novel sacrifices too much, for me, on the altar of plot.”
Source: Reality Hunger
“The novel is dead. Long live the antinovel, built from scraps.”
Source: Reality Hunger
Source: Reality Hunger
Source: Reality Hunger
Source: Reality Hunger: A Manifesto
Source: Reality Hunger
“Anything processed by memory is fiction.”
Source: Reality Hunger
“Story seems to say that everything happens for a reason and I want to say, No, it doesn’t.”
Source: Reality Hunger
“A book should either allow us to escape existence or teach us how to endure it.”
Source: How Literature Saved My Life
“Our culture is obsessed with real events because we experience hardly any.”
Source: Reality Hunger
“My medium is prose, not the novel.”
Source: Reality Hunger
Source: The Thing About Life is That One Day You'll Be Dead
Source: How Literature Saved My Life