Will Shields Quotes

The absence of plot leaves the reader room to think about other things.

I think it's fair to say that Donald Trump was born without the embarrassment gene or the moral reservation gene.

He who speaks the truth must keep one foot in the stirrup.

Moving on after a break up is a great way to get back on your feet and start feeling happy again.

But I never want to not create something because I'm afraid of what it might say.

Sexuality is a very private thing, 'Provocateur' will make it public

Dont forget, I was the soft, pudgy kid in school that everyone made fun of.

Jen[nifer Lawrence]'s main goal in life is to get me to laugh while we're filming sad scenes. And it's the HUNGER GAMES.

I didn't audition for the part! The role was offered to me, and I was so excited to be a part of 'The Haunting Hour.' It is such a cool show and it was so much fun shooting the 'Intruders.'

You are only as pretty as you are nice and smart.

I absolutely would categorize myself as one of successful professional females. I think you can be successful and still be extremely present in a healthy life.

Resolution and conclusion are inherent in a plot-driven narrative.

I take literature as a really serious human activity. It's not just a playful thing. It can be hilarious and wonderful and performative, but I think it's really serious.

In my own little way, I feel like I'm part of a group of writers who care deeply about pushing the essay forward.

White working-class voters or working-class voters have felt abandoned, have felt, in many senses, disparaged by the political leadership of America.

I'm not sure Betsy DeVos has ever spent a day in a public school. And I don't - I'm pretty sure Donald Trump hasn't.

There is always strength in numbers

The corporations who invest in lobbyists, it pays in terms of tax loopholes, tax subsidies, all the rest. It pays. Clearly, the money has a big effect.

At a time when the public is sour on politicians, have no use for them, Bill Clinton has risen to a different level. Bill Clinton is endlessly interesting.

Human trafficking is a human tragedy. It's an outrage against any decent people.

Donadld Trump loves loyalty.

Donald Trump is to traditional values what I am to marathon running.

Football is a violent game. We are violent men.

She is by my side, as my sister, but he is my soul.He is my enemy, my tormentor, my demon.He is my beloved.

Here's to another year and let's hope it's above ground.

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

When you steal from an artist you are stealing their blood, sweat and tears.

I suffered from post-natal depression after Rowan was born. I had a healthy, beautiful baby girl and I couldn't look at her. I couldn't hold her, smile at her. All I wanted was to disappear and die.

It's okay to be successful and it's also okay to be happy with your success even though it might not be easy.

People think of me as a mannequin. All show and no substance.

I took my work seriously, but not as a craft. More as a life.

People say, 'I love my wrinkles.' I don't love my wrinkles - come on!

My mother totally protected me as a model. She took me on every look-see, she was there on the set if I wanted her to be.

It's nice, it gives you a feeling of security so that if something breaks we know we can always call a guy over and he'll bring a drill or something.

It's hard work being a person, you have to do it every single day.

He dares not concern himself with the future for fear of disturbing the present.

Eventually, everything gets stuck between a pair of parentheses or buried in the bottom of a trunk.

These are frightening times...when she feels herself annointed by loneliness.

Our friendship is made up of these brief frenzied exchanges, but the quality of our conversation, for all its feverish outpouring, is genuine.

I'm concerned about the unknowability of other people.

The silence is perfect, and yet a torment.

So this is where the years of maturity deliver us - to this needy, selfish, unwieldy wish to be somebody else's first and primal other.

In a long and healthy life, which is what most of us have, there is plenty of time.

Self-pity is a sin. It is a form of living suicide.

The great purpose in life is to take your destiny out of the hands of others.

Engaging and well paced, the book fills in the reality behind Vonnegut's work

Our culture is obsessed with real events because we experience hardly any.

With relatively few exceptions, the novel sacrifices too much, for me, on the altar of plot.

I'm not interested in collage as the refuge of the composition-ally disabled. I'm interested in collage as (to be honest) an evolution beyond narrative.

The novel is dead. Long live the antinovel, built from scraps.