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“ To write only according to the rules laid down by masterpieces signifies that one is not a master but a pupil. ”

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Copies have been dethroned; the economic model built on them is collapsing. In a regime of superabundant free copies, copies are no longer the basis of wealth. Now relationships, links, connections, and sharing are. Value has shifted away from a copy toward the many ways to recall, annotate, personalize, edit, authenticate, display, mark, transfer, and engage a work. Art is a conversation, not a patent office. The citation of sources belongs to the realms of journalism and scholarship, not art. Reality can’t be copyrighted.

~ David Shields

David Shields Art Internet Writing Writing Process

Story seems to say that everything happens for a reason and I want to say, No, it doesn’t.

~ David Shields

David Shields Literature Writing Process

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

David Shields Literature Reading

A sports writer is a stylist of some kind. He is trying to convey mood and character and emotion.

~ David Shields

David Shields Character Trying Emotion