I like landscape, I guess. It's kind of a game to see how you can describe it. — David Means Game Copy Share Image
You can't take a story and just stretch it out - that does not a novel make. — David Means Copy Share Image
I think that those moments before a performer plays are the moments when the potential for something to be created may -… — David Means Copy Share Image
Vietnam and Iraq are part of the same national trauma and delusion; we folded the war up when Reagan became president and… — David Means Delusion Copy Share Image
There's a huge distance between who I am as a regular person and what takes place in my fiction. — David Means Copy Share Image
Those who see beauty almost too intensely can easily look mad to those who are functioning within the confines of so-called normal… — David Means Beauty Copy Share Image
A kiss is often about the future and the past. A lost dream, about the discretion of the idealism. — David Means Dream Copy Share Image
America turns its back on the mentally ill. It likes to think it doesn't, but it does. — David Means America Copy Share Image
Wars never simply end, not for those in combat and not for the culture, and one way or another, they shape-shift from… — David Means Culture Copy Share Image
I don't want to be a commentator of my own work. If you've written the story, you've said what you want to… — David Means Commentator Copy Share Image
I was a kid who was born and raised on Johnny Cash. My father played 'At Folsom Prison' constantly. Cash was the… — David Means Copy Share Image
A good folk song tells you something you already know, in a form you're already familiar with, on terms that were set… — David Means Copy Share Image
I love the nooks and crannies of the American landscape; the back roads and back alleys, the places that are still untouched… — David Means Copy Share Image
I knew for years I wanted to write a novel that addressed the personal trauma of my older sister, who suffered -… — David Means Books Copy Share Image
In 'Kid A' and 'Amnesiac,' Mr. Yorke's lyrics were often unfathomable, moaned and mumbled and forced beneath the surface of the music.… — David Means Amnesiac Copy Share Image
We believe in cures; we're a quick-fix country, and we drive forward, and we eat up what we have extremely fast in… — David Means Copy Share Image
Novels often thin themselves out to a watery hue - some even start that way - and at times seem to only… — David Means Books Copy Share Image
I love novels, and I read them more than anything, but stories cut in sharp and hard and are able to reveal… — David Means Books Copy Share Image
I'm not at all interested in simply reporting what's here right now, or cranking out an entertainment device that's going to touch… — David Means Copy Share Image
I'm not sure if a writer should talk about themes. Themes arrive out of the deeper structure and concerns, but to me,… — David Means Copy Share Image
From George Martin's classically inspired production of the Beatles to Peter Gabriel's early solo masterpieces, to Stereolab's beautiful loops and blips, U.K.-based… — David Means Beatles Copy Share Image
I think all good short stories are about what it means to tell a good story. — David Means Copy Share Image
I was an at-home father, taking care of them for seven years when they were babies. I was one of those new-age,… — David Means Babies Copy Share Image
I don't think you could write fiction or create art unless you are sort of a positive person. — David Means Art Copy Share Image
My characters - no, make that most characters - are seeking the shelter of narrative resolution, a place of quiet and grace. — David Means Grace Copy Share Image
Undergraduate writers seem to be, in a way, more open to letting themselves just write. — David Means Copy Share Image
The wonderful thing about being an American writer is you've got this vastness to draw from. — David Means Copy Share Image
It's really hard to be a story writer - no matter how much acclaim you get - and not write a novel. — David Means Books Copy Share Image
I think most short story writers, at one time or another, over the course of several books, naturally skirt near the edge… — David Means Books Copy Share Image
I studied English at the College of Wooster in Ohio, and I did an M.F.A. in Poetry at Columbia. — David Means College Copy Share Image
History is delusional. Not just an illusion, it's a delusion. America is this giant country, so it has these big delusions, and… — David Means America Copy Share Image
The more you know about Bob Dylan, the less you know. A truly enigmatic artist, Mr. Dylan's work and life offer vaporous… — David Means Art Copy Share Image
There is this idea of 'north,' and if you're from Michigan and you wandered the Upper Peninsula, you know what it feels… — David Means Canada Copy Share Image
