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Basically, I really love work that puts the reader into a kind of vertigo, into a real doubt, and a beautiful way to convey that, a really perfect metaphor for that, is to make the reader also experience doubt.

~David Shields

Topics: Also Basically Beautiful Convey Doubt Experience Kind Love Make Metaphor Perfect Puts Reader Real Really Vertigo Way Work

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Every writer from Montaigne to William S. Burroughs has pasted and cut from previous work. Every artist, whether it's Warhol or, you know, Dangermouse or whoever.

~David Shields

Topics: Artist Cut Every Know Previous Warhol Whether Whoever William Work Writer You

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We've been appropriating in art since Duchamp, and we've been appropriating in music since the first person was banging on drums.

~David Shields

Topics: Art Banging Been Drums First Music Person Since

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Your basic, well-made novel by Ian McEwan or Jonathan Franzen just bores me silly.

~David Shields

Topics: Basic Bores Jonathan Just Me Novel Silly Your

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Take Jonathan Franzen's work: it's just old wine in new bottles. They say he's the Tolstoy of the digital age, but there can only be a Tolstoy of the Tolstoyan age.

~David Shields

Topics: Age Bottles Digital Digital Age He Jonathan Just New Old Old Wine Only Say Take They Say Tolstoy Wine Work

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In music, they're not endlessly rewriting Beethoven's 'Third Symphony;' in visual art, they aren't painting portraits of 16th-century royalty. Art moves forward.

~David Shields

Topics: Art Beethoven Endlessly Forward Moves Music Painting Portraits Rewriting Royalty Symphony Third Visual

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Art, like science, progresses, and to me it's bizarre that a lot of acclaimed and popular and respectable books are not advancing the art form.

~David Shields

Topics: Advancing Art Art Form Bizarre Books Form Like Lot Me Popular Respectable Science

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I disagree with everything John Updike has ever said.

~David Shields

Topics: Disagree Ever Everything John Said

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I am interested in work that jumps boundaries, and that makes trouble. Part of me is comfortable with that: with being a bit of a troublemaker.

~David Shields

Topics: Am Being Bit Boundaries Comfortable Interested Jumps Makes Me Part Trouble Troublemaker Work I Am

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It's true of so many fiction writers that I much prefer the essayistic work they did, whether it's David Foster Wallace's, or John Cheever's, or Nathaniel Hawthorne's.

~David Shields

Topics: David Did Fiction Fiction Writers Foster John Many Much Prefer True Wallace Whether Work Writers

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: July 22nd, 1956

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