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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 just can't read, the way other people can, these tediously elaborated books.

~David Shields

Topics: Books Just Other People Read Way

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I have a teaching job that allows me to pay the rent and affords me to, frankly, write the books I want to write.

~David Shields

Topics: Affords Books Frankly Job Me Pay Rent Teaching Want Write

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All good books wind up, I think, with the writer getting his teeth bashed in.

~David Shields

Topics: Books Getting Good His Teeth Think Up Wind Writer I Think

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The real impulse of most books is to tell a story to keep the reader lashed to the page. I don't get why that's a proper use of an adult's time.

~David Shields

Topics: Adult Books Get Impulse Keep Most Page Proper Reader Real Story Tell Time Use Why

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'Twilight' was a cult film, and the books were huge, but after 'New Moon,' it really blew up.

~David Slade

Topics: After Blew Books Cult Film Huge Moon New Really Twilight Up Were

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Films are pushing envelopes in terms of what is horrific, but also on other areas: in video games, in comic books and outside life.

~David Slade

Topics: Also Area Books Comic Comic Books Films Games Horrific Life Other Outside Pushing Terms Video Video Games

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My kids' books all have a darkness to them.

~David Small

Topics: Books Darkness Kids Them

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Television and film are our libraries now. Our history books.

~David Strathairn

Topics: Books Film History History Books Libraries Now Our Television

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I'm obsessed with books.

~David Sylvian

Topics: Books Obsessed

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