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About David Shields
American author
David Shields is an American author of 25 books. His work spans fiction, nonfiction, and criticism, and he is known for books such as Reality Hunger, The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead, and Black Planet. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow, twice an NEA Fellow, and a winner of the PEN Revson Award. He has also been a finalist for the National Book Critics' Circle Award and the PEN West Award, and has served as senior contributing editor of Conjunctions.
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Vision: more sayings
- “Fiction---good fiction, anyway---is dream made flesh, given purpose and drive, and set on a quest to show us…”Holly Lisle
- “Ah, Sir, a novel is a mirror carried along a high road. At one moment it reflects to your vision the azure sk…”Stendhal
- “Originality depends only on the character of the drawing and the vision peculiar to each artist.”Georges Seurat
Art: more sayings
- “The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.”Agnes de Mille
- “The only duty an artist has is in the quality of the art. There is no moral obligation to denounce. An artist…”Fernando Botero
- “I love vast libraries; yet there is a doubt,If one be better with them or without,Unless he use them wisely,…”John Godfrey Saxe