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Jim Shepard Quotes

I very much like people. I don’t much like writers who don’t Picture Quote #1

I think fiction is all about the exercise of the empathetic imagination. Part of what I do is let the stuff I read about meld with what I have experienced Picture Quote #1

I’ll find something in what I read that snags my imagination in emotional terms; it resonates with me for reasons more complicated than just that it seems like it would make a good story Picture Quote #1

I think there’s a playfulness and a distance to Kavalier and Clay that I don’t aspire to in my stuff. Maybe I’m more old-fashioned, and less of a fabulist, in that way Picture Quote #1

Disasters occur organically in my work, in that that’s the way my thinking tends, more than that’s what I start out by planning. I’m sort of a catastrophist Picture Quote #1

Class is the most taboo subject in America. The American media would rather talk about race or perversion or anything else considered taboo before class Picture Quote #1

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I do find stories - or literary fiction - an apt form for analyzing the world. And especially for trying to imagine the other. An agenda, again, that seems more important now than ever Picture Quote #1

I spend most of my time reading non-fiction of all sorts. Then poetry. Then fiction to blurb. Then fiction I want to read Picture Quote #1

The etiquette of blurbs means it’s not hard to not blurb something (if it’s not by a friend, or student): everyone knows how many books you’re deluged with. You can just say you never got to it Picture Quote #1

It turns out that our intuition is a greater genius than we are Picture Quote #1

What makes us threaten the things we want most? Picture Quote #1

The longer you go by yourself the weirder you get, and the weirder you get the longer you go by yourself Picture Quote #1

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I channel the rote and the new and unseen. My head has always been the busiest of crossroads, a festival of happy and unhappy arrivals. In the hours before daybreak when I was a boy, God sent me words as visitors Picture Quote #1

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I very much like people. I don’t much like writers who don’t (Jim Shepard Quotes) I think fiction is all about the exercise of the empathetic imagination. Part of what I do is let the stuff I read about meld with what I have experienced (Jim Shepard Quotes) I’ll find something in what I read that snags my imagination in emotional terms; it resonates with me for reasons more complicated than just that it seems like it would make a good story (Jim Shepard Quotes) I think there’s a playfulness and a distance to Kavalier and Clay that I don’t aspire to in my stuff. Maybe I’m more old-fashioned, and less of a fabulist, in that way (Jim Shepard Quotes) Disasters occur organically in my work, in that that’s the way my thinking tends, more than that’s what I start out by planning. I’m sort of a catastrophist (Jim Shepard Quotes) Class is the most taboo subject in America. The American media would rather talk about race or perversion or anything else considered taboo before class (Jim Shepard Quotes) I do find stories - or literary fiction - an apt form for analyzing the world. And especially for trying to imagine the other. An agenda, again, that seems more important now than ever (Jim Shepard Quotes) I spend most of my time reading non-fiction of all sorts. Then poetry. Then fiction to blurb. Then fiction I want to read (Jim Shepard Quotes) The etiquette of blurbs means it’s not hard to not blurb something (if it’s not by a friend, or student): everyone knows how many books you’re deluged with. You can just say you never got to it (Jim Shepard Quotes) It turns out that our intuition is a greater genius than we are (Jim Shepard Quotes) What makes us threaten the things we want most? (Jim Shepard Quotes) The longer you go by yourself the weirder you get, and the weirder you get the longer you go by yourself (Jim Shepard Quotes) I channel the rote and the new and unseen. My head has always been the busiest of crossroads, a festival of happy and unhappy arrivals. In the hours before daybreak when I was a boy, God sent me words as visitors (Jim Shepard Quotes)