Will Shields
Will Shields
Will Herthie Shieldsis a former college and professional American football player who was an offensive guard in the National Football Leaguefor fourteen seasons. He played college football for the University of Nebraska, earning consensus All-American honors and winning the Outland Trophy. He played his entire professional career for the NFL's Kansas City Chiefs, and never missed a game in fourteen seasons...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAthlete
Date of Birth15 September 1971
CountryUnited States of America
Story seems to say that everything happens for a reason and I want to say, No, it doesn’t.
A book should either allow us to escape existence or teach us how to endure it.
Our culture is obsessed with real events because we experience hardly any,
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.
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".
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 a minimum security prison,
I'm wonderfully self-lacerating, probably to my character's detriment. I'm terribly open to critique.
Resolution and conclusion are inherent in a plot-driven narrative.
With relatively few exceptions, the novel sacrifices too much, for me, on the altar of plot.
The novel is dead. Long live the antinovel, built from scraps.
To me, the moment you're talking about nonfiction you're talking about reality.
Thomas Jefferson went through the New Testament and removed all the miracles, leaving only the teachings. Take a source, extract what appeals to you, discard the rest. Such an act of editorship is bound to reflect something of the individual doing the editing: a plaster cast of an aesthetic-not the actual thing, but the imprint of it.
I'm not interested in collage as the refuge of the composition-ally disabled. I'm interested in collage as (to be honest) an evolution beyond narrative.