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Are black people conscious of how excruciatingly self-conscious white people have become in their every interaction with black people? Is this self-consciousness an improvement? Maybe not, because I'm thinking of people in categories rather than as people, which is a famously dangerous thing to do.

~David Shields

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That's why people read books. You get to have the real conversation, as opposed to the pseudo-conversations we have in everyday life.

~David Shields

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The thing I hate the most in any kind of writing is self-righteousness. Where you pretend you don't have the same kinds of flaws your subject has.

~David Shields

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I'm trying to use myself and my own flawedness as a metaphor for general human experience. I'm trying to 'stand next to' a subject, whether it's Bobby Knight or Vince Carter, and use that subject to meditate on both him and me.

~David Shields

Topics: Bobby Both Carter Experience General Him Human Human Experience Knight Me Meditate Metaphor My Own Myself Next Own Stand Subject Trying Use Whether

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We judge athletes as if we all don't have trouble performing our various duties from time to time.

~David Shields

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When I was studying at the Iowa Writers School, I read a sports writer, Ron Maly, from the Des Moines Register. He was a good sports writer. I became real interested in the contrast between Lute Olson, who was the coach of Iowa at the time, and Ron Maly.

~David Shields

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I think of sports writers as mediating between two worlds. Athletes probably think of sports writers as not macho enough. And people in high culture probably think of sports writers as jocks or something. They are in an interestingly complex position in which they have to mediate the world of body and the world of words.

~David Shields

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A sports writer is a stylist of some kind. He is trying to convey mood and character and emotion.

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A book makes claims of literary art.

~David Shields

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I like having a paperback original. And until literature catches up with the culture - the violence, language, syntax, compression, concision, complexity and diversity that the Internet offers - books still make sense.

~David Shields

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: July 22nd, 1956

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