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.

Sports passion is deeply, infamously territorial: our city-state is better than your city-state because....

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

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

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

Sports movies are often very good at dramatizing the intersection of public and private realms: the body....

I think of sports writers as mediating between two worlds. Athletes probably think of sports writers....

You, Dad, in the large scheme of things, don't matter. I, Dad, don't matter. We're vectors on the grids....

A great book allows me to leap over that wall: in a deep, significant conversation with another consciousness,....