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I like some of Annie Proulx, some of those very brief stories of hers. And I love J. M. Coetzee's Elizabeth Costello. I like Geoff Dyer. I also liked W. G. Sebald, especially his book 'The Emigrants'.

~David Shields

Topics: Also Annie Book Brief Elizabeth Hers His Like Liked Love Some Stories Those Very I Love

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I argued strongly to the American publisher that 'Reality Hunger' should come out first. They thought that 'The Thing About Life' would have more appeal because it's on a broader topic; it's about mortality rather than art.

~David Shields

Topics: About American Appeal Argued Art Because Broader Come First Hunger Life More Mortality Out Publisher Rather Reality Should Strongly Than Thing Thought Topic Would

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So many of the things I talk about in 'Reality Hunger' seem to be the things that 'The Thing About Life' does - things like risk, contradiction, compression, mixing modes of attack from the memoristic gesture to data-crunching.

~David Shields

Topics: About Attack Contradiction Does Gesture Hunger Life Like Many Mixing Modes Reality Risk Seem Talk Thing Things

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To be honest, there are parts of 'How Literature Saved My Life' that began as interviews. Someone was telling me that they think the book sounds very phonic: that it sounds like me speaking. And I don't think it's a coincidence that there are six to ten passages that I cadged from various interviews that I did post-'Reality Hunger'.

~David Shields

Topics: Began Book Coincidence Did Honest How Hunger Interviews Life Like Literature Me My Life Parts Passages Saved Six Someone Sounds Speaking Telling Ten Think To Be Honest Various Very

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People like Ian McEwan and Jonathan Franzen completely bore me.

~David Shields

Topics: Bore Jonathan Like Me People

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I still see life entirely through its Darwinian prism. I keep trying to shake off the aftereffects of writing 'The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead', and I find I can't.

~David Shields

Topics: About Darwinian Day Dead Entirely Find Keep Life Off One Day Prism See Shake Still Thing Through Trying Writing You

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You, Dad, in the large scheme of things, don't matter. I, Dad, don't matter. We're vectors on the grids of cellular life.

~David Shields

Topics: Dad Large Life Matter Scheme Things You

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Aging followed by death is the price we pay for the immortality of our genes. You find this information soul-killing; I find it thrilling, liberating.

~David Shields

Topics: Aging Death Find Followed Genes Immortality Information Liberating Our Pay Price Thrilling You

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Life, in my view, is simple, tragic, and frighteningly beautiful.

~David Shields

Topics: Beautiful Life Simple Tragic View

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I'm really drawn toward work that is trying to capture what it's like to think now and to live now.

~David Shields

Topics: Capture Drawn Like Live Now Really Think Toward Trying Work

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: July 22nd, 1956

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