David Shields
David Shields
David Shieldsis an American author of fiction and nonfiction...
book should endure
A book should either allow us to escape existence or teach us how to endure it.
activities cultural embassy fact last market proved terms tourism understanding useful
This was in fact before the establishment of the embassy last year, and proved to have been very useful for us from a tourism perspective, also in terms of Jamaica's understanding of the market and also from some indications of cultural activities and cultural levels.
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.
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.
age age-and-aging confusion entered oil
We've entered the age of confusion in oil policy.
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.
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".
narrative nonfiction labels
Nonfiction, qua label, is nothing more or less than a very flexible (easily breakable) frame that allows you to pull the thing away from narrative and toward contemplation, which is all I've ever wanted.
genre-is prison minimum
Genre is a minimum security prison,
character self critique
I'm wonderfully self-lacerating, probably to my character's detriment. I'm terribly open to critique.