A WRITER'S WIT: DAVID SHIELDS

We're completely confused about the boundaries between fiction and nonfiction. To me, the moment you compose, you're fictionalizing; the moment you remember, you're dreaming. It's ludicrous that we have to pretend that nonfiction has to be real in some absolute sense.
​David Shields
Author of ​Reality Hunger
​Born July 22, 1956

D. Shields

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