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  • Your basic, well-made novel by Ian McEwan or Jonathan Franzen just bores me silly.
    - David Shields
  • In a way, it's taken me 25 years to acknowledge that I am from the West Coast. I was always sort of pretending I was bicoastal or that I really belonged on the East Coast.
    - David Shields
  • Stoicism is of no use to me whatsoever. What I'm a big believer in is talking about everything until you're blue in the face.
    - David Shields
  • Seattle is still more Caucasian than most medium-sized cities. The sort of psychosexual politics of white fandom in context of black athletes who are also both very rich and slightly angry is just, to me, bottomlessly fascinating.
    - David Shields
  • My particular demigod is the Sonics point guard Gary Payton, who is one of the most notorious trash-talkers in the National Basketball Association. He's not really bad. He's only pretend bad - I know that - but he allows me to fantasize about being bad.
    - David Shields
  • I'm trying to use myself and my own flawedness as a metaphor for general human experience. I'm trying to 'stand next to' a subject, whether it's Bobby Knight or Vince Carter, and use that subject to meditate on both him and me.
    - David Shields