Quotes by David Shields

“Copies have been dethroned; the economic model built on them is collapsing. In a regime of superabundant free copies, copies are no longer the basis of wealth. Now relationships, links, connections...”

“Story seems to say that everything happens for a reason and I want to say, No, it doesnt.”

“A great book allows me to leap over that wall: in a deep, significant conversation with another consciousness, I feel human and unalone.”

“To write only according to the rules laid down by masterpieces signifies that one is not a master but a pupil.”

“A sports writer is a stylist of some kind. He is trying to convey mood and character and emotion.”

“Sports passion is deeply, infamously territorial: our city-state is better than your city-state because our city-state's team beat your city-state's team. My attachment to the Sonics is approximate...”

“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, beyond striving, beyond economic necessity.”

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

“When I was studying at the Iowa Writers School, I read a sports writer, Ron Maly, from the Des Moines Register. He was a good sports writer. I became real interested in the contrast between Lute Ol...”

“I think of sports writers as mediating between two worlds. Athletes probably think of sports writers as not macho enough. And people in high culture probably think of sports writers as jocks or som...”

“Sports - especially the NBA - function as a place where American society pretends to discuss and pretends to solve questions and historical agonies that can't possibly be solved within the realm of...”

“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. I think he's really amazing.”

“I suspect the real reason the N.F.L. and N.B.A. don't want high schoolers and college underclassmen to play with their ball is that they don't want to jeopardize their relationship with National Co...”

“I think the core of fans' relationship is one that vacillates schizophrenically and mercurially from reverence to resentment. Fans fetishize the players' athletic genius and both deify it and demon...”

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