Quotes by : David Shields

To write only according to the rules laid down by masterpieces signifies that one is not a master but....

Story seems to say that everything happens for a reason and I want to say, No, it doesn’t.

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

The movie - any sports movie - becomes a praise song to life here on earth, to physical existence itself,....

I think the core of fans' relationship is one that vacillates schizophrenically and mercurially from....

Copies have been dethroned; the economic model built on them is collapsing. In a regime of superabundant....

I am exhausted by traditional memoir. I am exhausted by the architecture of the conventional novel.

You could easily do a book of Marshawn Lynch's quotes, which have a quite serious political pushback.....

When I was studying at the Iowa Writers School, I read a sports writer, Ron Maly, from the Des Moines....

Sports - especially the NBA - function as a place where American society pretends to discuss and pretends....