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Literature matters so much to me I can hardly stand it.

~David Shields

Topics: Hardly Literature Matters Me Much Stand I Can

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I'm very drawn to the way in which a life lived can be an art of sorts or a failed art, and a life-lived-told can be art as well.

~David Shields

Topics: Art Drawn Failed Life Lived Sort Very Way Well Which

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I don't know what's the matter with me, why I'm so adept at distance, why I feel so remote from things, why life feels like a rumor.

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Topics: Adept Distance Feel Feels Know Life Like Matter Me Remote Rumor Things Why I Feel

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The key thing for an intellectually rigorous writer to come to grips with is the marginalization of literature by more technologically sophisticated and thus more visceral forms.

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The novel is an artifact, which is why antiquarians cling to it so fervently.

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Topics: Cling Novel Which Why

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I used to feel that everything I know I learned through my lifelong struggle with stuttering; I now feel this way about my damn back.

~David Shields

Topics: About Back Damn Everything Feel Know Learned Lifelong Now Struggle Stuttering Through Used Way

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Gerald Jonas's book about stuttering is called 'The Disorder of Many Theories.' Back theory seems to suffer from the same 'Rashomon' effect: as with almost every human problem, there is no dearth of answers and no answer.

~David Shields

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In the summer of 1956, my mother was pregnant with me, which caused my father to confess his fear that I was going to be too much of a burden for him because he had a history of depression.

~David Shields

Topics: Because Burden Caused Confess Depression Father Fear Going Had He Him His History Me Mother Much Pregnant Summer Too Too Much Which

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Swimming is by far the best tonic I've found for my back. I'm not a good swimmer - I do the breaststroke or elementary backstroke in the slow lane - but when I took a two-week break from swimming I was surprised how much I missed it.

~David Shields

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The essential gesture of the contemporary novel is to get people to turn the page, to entertain them, and I hate that. I want a novel where the gesture is towards existential investigation on every page. That, to me, is thrilling.

~David Shields

Topics: Contemporary Entertain Essential Every Existential Gesture Get Hate Investigation Me Novel Page People Them Thrilling Towards Turn Want Where

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: July 22nd, 1956

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