Books Quote by Jim Shepard

I very much like people. I don't much like writers who don't.

— Jim Shepard

I love the box that such a decision puts you in, and I love the interest the reader has in seeing how you negotiate…

— Jim Shepard

I don't think conservativism is about a deficiency. I think it's about a commitment to an ideology that has to in some ways devalue…

— Jim Shepard

What makes us threaten the things we want most?

— Jim Shepard

I do find stories - or literary fiction - an apt form for analyzing the world. And especially for trying to imagine the other.…

— Jim Shepard

Does research get in the way of the story? It certainly can. Anything can, given that as writers we're all geniuses at procrastination. But…

— Jim Shepard

“But what I did was the kind of thing you'd do and the kind of thing you've done: I felt bad for him and…

— Jim Shepard

I have written screenplays. Most recently for Errol Morris, who was thinking about doing his first fiction movie, and with a young director who…

— Jim Shepard

Class is the most taboo subject in America. The American media would rather talk about race or perversion or anything else considered taboo before…

— Jim Shepard

I don't beat at the details, but I do always keep in mind that anything that isn't A) moving the story forward or B)…

— Jim Shepard

Empathy is a human trait. But lots of humans exercise some traits more energetically than others. By "the usefulness of empathy" I mean the…

— Jim Shepard

“But this is the only account hand-copied and tacked to my bulletin board, the testimony of a Dutch pilot caught on shore near Anjer,…

— Jim Shepard