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In many senses, creativity and 'plagiarism' are nearly indivisible.

~David Shields

Topics: Creativity Many Nearly Plagiarism Senses

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We like non-fiction because we live in fictitious times.

~David Shields

Topics: Because Fictitious Like Live Non-Fiction Times

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Flipping through the channels late at night, I'll come across 'The Longest Yard' and not be able to get up off the couch until Burt Reynolds has scored the winning touchdown.

~David Shields

Topics: Able Across Channels Come Couch Flipping Get Late Longest Night Off Through Until Up Winning Yard

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If the bus driver is black, I thank him... when I get off at my spot, whereas I would never think of doing this if the driver were white.

~David Shields

Topics: Black Bus Bus Driver Doing Driver Get Him Never Off Spot Thank Think Were Whereas White Would

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I'm interested in non-fiction, but a form of it which is very badly behaved, which doesn't define itself as straight-ahead journalism or memoir. It blurs boundaries, plays fast and loose with the truth - not to be silly, whimsical or lazy, but to get greater purchase on what it feels like to be alive.

~David Shields

Topics: Alive Badly Behaved Boundaries Define Fast Feels Form Get Greater Interested Itself Journalism Lazy Like Loose Memoir Non-Fiction Plays Purchase Silly Truth Very Which Whimsical

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A major focus of 'Reality Hunger' is appropriation and plagiarism and what these terms mean. I can hardly treat the topic deeply without engaging in it. That would be like writing a book about lying and not being permitted to lie in it.

~David Shields

Topics: About Appropriation Being Book Deeply Engaging Focus Hardly Hunger Lie Like Lying Major Mean Permitted Plagiarism Reality Terms Topic Treat Without Would Writing I Can

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I think the core of fans' relationship is one that vacillates schizophrenically and mercurially from reverence to resentment. Fans fetishize the players' athletic genius and both deify it and demonize it; witness the way awe turns into anger whenever a player holds out or flips off the offensive coordinator.

~David Shields

Topics: Anger Athletic Awe Both Core Fans Flips Genius Holds Off Offensive Out Player Players Relationship Resentment Reverence Think Turns Way Whenever Witness I Think

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I am truly bored with 99 per cent of conventional novels. I do think it's a somewhat desiccated form.

~David Shields

Topics: Am Bored Cent Conventional Form Novels Per Somewhat Think Truly I Am

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Collage is not a kitchen sink; it's not a refuge for the compositionally disabled.

~David Shields

Topics: Collage Disabled Kitchen Refuge Sink

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You don't think anyone who lives an ordinary life has plenty of trouble and torment to write about?

~David Shields

Topics: About Anyone Life Lives Ordinary Ordinary Life Plenty Think Torment Trouble Who Write You

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: July 22nd, 1956

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