I am interested in work that jumps boundaries, and that makes trouble. Part of me is comfortable with that: with being a bit of a troublemaker.
From David Shields
In many senses, creativity and 'plagiarism' are nearly indivisible.
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.
Sports movies are often very good at dramatizing the intersection of public and private realms: the body politic.
All art is theft.
During Ronald Reagan's administration, '60 Minutes' ran a segment about the difference between Reagan's rhetoric and Reagan's actions. The show thought it had produced a hard-hitting piece; Reagan's team called up '60 Minutes' to thank them for the 15-minute commercial.
The difference between kitties and humans is that we are aware of our mortal condition, and the burden of consciousness is to evoke and embody and explore the coordinates of our condition.
Our culture is obsessed with real events because we experience hardly any.
We like non-fiction because we live in fictitious times.
The American writer has his hands full, trying to understand and then describe and then make credible much of American reality.
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