A Quote by David Shields

I am exhausted by traditional memoir. I am exhausted by the architecture of the conventional novel.

David Shields

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Architecture Am Conventional Exhausted Memoir Novel Traditional

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David Shields
American - Author
Born: July 22, 1956

An exhausted man is much more than a weary man. Does he exhaust the possible because he is himself exhausted, or is he exhausted because he has exhausted the possible? He exhausts himself by exhausting the possible, and inversely.

Gilles Deleuze

I miss 'EastEnders.' I loved it. But I was exhausted when I left. They asked me to go back recently - they've asked a few times. I am tempted! But my husband Scott says you have to really think about it. Because, towards the end, I was so exhausted and not sleeping at night. I'm not quite ready for it.

Barbara Windsor

You know how fussy and particular I am in painting. I am ever removing the paint and repainting the spot until I am completely exhausted.

Arshile Gorky

Families don't always realize that mother is exhausted, because mother is always exhausted. Exhausted is what looks normal.

Mary Blakely

I feel occasionally my skull will crack, fatigue is continuous - I only go from less exhausted to more exhausted & back again.

Sylvia Plath

I am exhausted if I don't work.

Pablo Picasso

I am always exhausted; I am always trying to find more time to be with my family, which is why they travel with me so much.

John Tesh

I am exhausted by trying to get along with the Lord.

Louise Rennison

When I am working on an epic-length book, the writing process is fairly long. It takes from four to five years to get through all the drafts. The book is done when I am exhausted.

Gunter Grass

I, for one, am pretty exhausted since I started blogging almost a year ago. But I am blaming that on my two sons, aged 3 and 6, whose perpetual-motion-machine energy is hard to keep up with at my advanced age.

Kara Swisher

Don't tell me that you have exhausted Life. When a man says that, one knows that life has exhausted him.

Oscar Wilde

After I wrote my memoir, 'A Long Way Gone,' I was a bit exhausted. I didn't want to write another memoir; I felt that it might not be sane for one to speak about himself for many, many, many years in a row. At the same time, I felt the story of 'Radiance of Tomorrow' pulling at me because of the first book.