Quotes by : David Shields

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.

I'm a sucker for sports movies.

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

I suspect the real reason the N.F.L. and N.B.A. don't want high schoolers and college underclassmen to....

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....

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

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