The novel is dead. Long live the antinovel, built from scraps. - David Shields

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I would love to have a long and serious conversation with the Pope. And Woody Allen, whom I have never interviewed. Then, after those two? Steve Jobs.

David Shields

The novel is dead. Long live the antinovel, built from scraps.

Built, Dead, Long, Novel, Scrap, Scraps

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Anything processed by memory is fiction.

Fiction, Memories, Memory, Processed

Everything I write, I believe instinctively, is to some extent collage. Meaning, ultimately, is a matter of adjacent data.

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My medium is prose, not the novel.

Medium, Mediums, Novel, Prose

I don’t know what’s the matter with me, why I’m so adept at distance, why I feel so remote from things, why life feels like a rumor.

Distance, Rumor, Matter, Whats, Feels

A book should either allow us to escape existence or teach us how to endure it.

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Don't get me wrong, I think bikes are terrific. I own several of my own, including a trendy mountain style, and ride them for pleasure and light exercise.

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Scarlett Johansson

I like taking parts where I'm like: "I don't know how I'm going to do this exactly but I know I can do it. " As opposed to doing something where you go: "There's nothing that I can contribute to this. "

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Seth Godin

If you're not willing to face the abyss of choice, you will almost certainly not spend enough time dancing with opportunity.

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Robert Kuttner

George Stigler Nobel laureate and a leader of Chicago School was asked why there were no Nobel Prizes awarded in the other social sciences, sociology, psychology, history, etc. "Don't worry", Stigler said, "they have already have a Nobel Prize in. . . Literature"

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Charlie Rose