I love the box that such a decision puts you in, and I love the interest the reader has in seeing how… — Jim Shepard Books Copy Share Image
I don't think conservativism is about a deficiency. I think it's about a commitment to an ideology that has to in some… — Jim Shepard Commitment Copy Share Image
I do find stories - or literary fiction - an apt form for analyzing the world. And especially for trying to imagine… — Jim Shepard Agendas Copy Share Image
Does research get in the way of the story? It certainly can. Anything can, given that as writers we're all geniuses at… — Jim Shepard Doe Copy Share Image
“But what I did was the kind of thing you'd do and the kind of thing you've done: I felt bad for… — Jim Shepard Bad feelings Copy Share Image
I have written screenplays. Most recently for Errol Morris, who was thinking about doing his first fiction movie, and with a young… — Jim Shepard Ambivalent Copy Share Image
Class is the most taboo subject in America. The American media would rather talk about race or perversion or anything else considered… — Jim Shepard America Copy Share Image
I don't beat at the details, but I do always keep in mind that anything that isn't A) moving the story forward… — Jim Shepard Analogies Copy Share Image
Empathy is a human trait. But lots of humans exercise some traits more energetically than others. By "the usefulness of empathy" I… — Jim Shepard Arguing Copy Share Image
“But this is the only account hand-copied and tacked to my bulletin board, the testimony of a Dutch pilot caught on shore… — Jim Shepard Bulletin board Copy Share Image
I'm tempted to do everything. And sometimes I think, "Oh, come on. You can stick that detail somewhere." — Jim Shepard Details Copy Share Image
I'll find something in what I read that snags my imagination in emotional terms; it resonates with me for reasons more complicated… — Jim Shepard Books Copy Share Image
It turns out that our intuition is a greater genius than we are. — Jim Shepard Genius Copy Share Image
“Lately it's started to seem to me that here in America our fetishization of self-reliance has taken a wrong turn and has… — Jim Shepard Author-interview Copy Share Image
The etiquette of blurbs means it's not hard to not blurb something (if it's not by a friend, or student): everyone knows… — Jim Shepard Book Copy Share Image
I channel the rote and the new and unseen. My head has always been the busiest of crossroads, a festival of happy… — Jim Shepard Boys Copy Share Image
Disasters occur organically in my work, in that that's the way my thinking tends, more than that's what I start out by… — Jim Shepard Disaster Copy Share Image
The protagonist of Fourteen Stories, None of Them Are Yours doesn’t make it easy for us, channeling as he does Barry Hannah… — Jim Shepard Bass Copy Share Image
You get lonely, is what it is. A person's not supposed to go through life with absolutely nobody. It's not normal. The… — Jim Shepard Life Copy Share Image
Christy has not been given a fair shake. She has not been identified as a competent premier, — Jim Shepard Competent Copy Share Image
I feel like one of the things I'm trying most to do is stretch my empathetic reach, as far as it will… — Jim Shepard Assistants Copy Share Image
I spend most of my time reading non-fiction of all sorts. Then poetry. Then fiction to blurb. Then fiction I want to… — Jim Shepard Fiction Copy Share Image
She thought she'd put up with however many years of stonewalling for a good reason, and she'd just figured out that as… — Jim Shepard Breakup Copy Share Image
