David Shields
David Shields
David Shieldsis an American author of fiction and nonfiction...
narrative plot resolution
Resolution and conclusion are inherent in a plot-driven narrative.
sacrifice too-much plot
With relatively few exceptions, the novel sacrifices too much, for me, on the altar of plot.
thinking rooms plot
The absence of plot leaves the reader room to think about other things.
airlines allow benefit flight fort jamaica japanese market midwest opportunity service start tokyo western worth
The announcement of American Airlines to start Dallas, Fort Worth, is strategically important for Jamaica and is a very important opportunity for our Midwest market, and western U.S., as well as western Canada. Our Japanese market will also benefit significantly because the American Airlines flight will allow for same day one-stop service from Narita Tokyo in Japan to MoBay.
amount barrels basis billion
The 10 billion barrels would be a substantial amount if there were a basis for it, and there's not at this point.
home rush seems specific
When I went back home over the summer, it seems like everyone is in a rush to be in a specific place. Boise's just so much more relaxed.
asking game people ranked rankings tired
We are really tired of people asking us about our rankings and we have to say we're not ranked because we do not have a full-time day program. We're not doing this just for the rankings, but unfortunately, this is the way the game is played.
affairs agencies challenges chinese expecting foreign large looking lots marketing national return run security support tremendous visitors volume
We're not expecting a large volume of Chinese visitors to (suddenly) run to Jamaica. So we're looking at the marketing in a structured, managed way. We know we need to look at the return on the investment. There are lots of challenges but there has been tremendous support from other agencies of government, from the foreign affairs and national security ministries. We have to be patient.
art reality economic-models
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, and sharing are. Value has shifted away from a copy toward the many ways to recall, annotate, personalize, edit, authenticate, display, mark, transfer, and engage a work. Art is a conversation, not a patent office. The citation of sources belongs to the realms of journalism and scholarship, not art. Reality can’t be copyrighted.
everything-happens-for-a-reason stories want
Story seems to say that everything happens for a reason and I want to say, No, it doesn’t.
book should endure
A book should either allow us to escape existence or teach us how to endure it.
real events culture
Our culture is obsessed with real events because we experience hardly any,
people humanity planets
You're one of 6.5 billion people now on the planet, and 99.9 percent of your genes are the same as everyone else's.
art reality poetry
The beauty of reality-based art - art underwritten by reality hunger - is that it's perfectly situated between life itself and (unattainable) "life as art".