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If you want to write serious books, you must be ready to break the forms.

~Charles J. Shields

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If literary terms were about artistic merit and not the rules of convenience, about achievement and not safety, the term 'realism' would be an honorary one, conferred only on work that actually builds unsentimental reality on the page, that matches the complexity of life with an equally rich arrangement in language.

~Charles J. Shields

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There is more to be pondered in the grain and texture of life than traditional fiction allows. The work of essayists is vital precisely because it permits and encourages self-knowledge in a way that is less indirect than fiction, more open and speculative.

~Charles J. Shields

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: December 2nd, 1951

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