Bore Quote by David Shields Download Open image “People like Ian McEwan and Jonathan Franzen completely bore me.” — David Shields ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bore Jonathan Like Me People
I have dipped into Ian McEwan and so on. I tend not to stick with one writer. But I dip in here and there. — John Gimlette Copy Share Image
There are so many talented young writers named Jonathan, with whom by comparison I suffer terribly. — Jonathan Ames Copy Share Image
Joe Strummer, Johnny Rotten, and Ian MacKaye were all people who really made me see things differently. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
When it comes to writers, I'm a huge fan of Ian McEwan. I've never taken a writing course, but reading and deconstructing his novels… — Deborah Copaken Kogan Copy Share Image
Ian Wright knows everyone, you know! He's such a good guy, man. I swear. He has a good heart. You don't find people like… — Bukayo Saka Copy Share Image
I do admire Judi Dench and Sir Ian McKellen, but I'm a philistine. I like the good life too much; I'm not good at… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
I'm super into dudes like Megazord, Jon Rafman, Rasmus Emanuel Svensson, Tabor Robak, and Michael Willis to name a few. — Oneohtrix Point Never Copy Share Image
Michael Gambon telling filthy jokes and Alan Rickman talking about scrambled eggs, just really normal things, and yet they're these amazingly, superb, famous actors.… — Matthew Lewis Copy Share Image
To be honest, there are parts of 'How Literature Saved My Life' that began as interviews. Someone was telling me that they think the… — David Shields Copy Share Image
I'm very drawn to the way in which a life lived can be an art of sorts or a failed art, and a life-lived-told… — David Shields Copy Share Image
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. — David Shields Copy Share Image
We're completely confused about the boundaries between fiction and non-fiction. To me, the moment you compose, you're fictionalising; the moment you remember, you're dreaming.… — David Shields Copy Share Image
Your art is most alive and dangerous when you use it against yourself. That's why I pick at my scabs. — David Shields Copy Share Image
Everything I write, I believe instinctively, is to some extent collage. Meaning, ultimately, is a matter of adjacent data. — David Shields Copy Share Image
Swimming is by far the best tonic I've found for my back. I'm not a good swimmer - I do the breaststroke or elementary… — David Shields Copy Share Image
I've always liked this idea that writing should comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable to create trouble. The value of a work of… — David Shields Copy Share Image
The beauty of reality-based art - art underwritten by reality hunger - is that it's perfectly situated between life itself and (unattainable) "life as… — David Shields Copy Share Image
“A great book allows me to leap over that wall: in a deep, significant conversation with another consciousness, I feel human and unalone.” — David Shields Copy Share Image
I am exhausted by traditional memoir. I am exhausted by the architecture of the conventional novel. — David Shields Copy Share Image
One of the advantages of appearing in such a play is that you begin to understand it properly, I feel Ophelia's tragedy was that… — Lalla Ward Copy Share Image
Characters develop as the book progresses, but any that start to bore me end up in the wastepaper basket. In real life, we may… — Laurie Graham Copy Share Image
The purpose of sports - even foreign sports - is not to bore people. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Sabotage did not involve loss of life, and it offered the best hope for future race relations. Bitterness would be kept to a minimum… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
I think privacy is important, and it's important you don't bore people with your own boring self. — Alison Jackson Copy Share Image
“Success and failure can both make you lose appetite and concentration, don't let it bother or over-excite you, just think them away as a… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“Two wives despaired of him,’ he said. ‘When he got engaged to Sylvia, she made it a condition that he should take the cure… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
I write with a sense of my future readers being ever on the verge of setting down the book and pronouncing it a bore.… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
I've always been into 'fast-paced, don't bore 'em, keep it moving along, stick with the story.' You know: tell a story the way I… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
