Top 20 Jim Shepard Quotes (2024 Update)

Jim Shepard Quote: “You get lonely, is what it is. A person’s not supposed to go through life with absolutely nobody. It’s not normal. The longer you go by yourself the weirder you get, and the weirder you get the longer you go by yourself. It’s a loop and you gotta do something to get out of it.”

1. “You get lonely, is what it is. A person’s not supposed to go through life with absolutely nobody. It’s not normal. The longer you go by yourself the weirder you get, and the weirder you get the longer you go by yourself. It’s a loop and you gotta do something to get out of it.”

— Jim Shepard

Jim Shepard Quote: “I’ll find something in what I read that snags my imagination in emotional terms; it resonates with me for reasons more complicated than just that it seems like it would make a good story.”

2. “I’ll find something in what I read that snags my imagination in emotional terms; it resonates with me for reasons more complicated than just that it seems like it would make a good story.”

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Jim Shepard Quote: “Oh, I usually don’t know a whole lot about a subject when I begin; the process itself teaches me a lot as I go along. Usually I know enough about one narrow area of the subject to start myself going, and then everything – including a lot more research – follows from that.”

3. “Oh, I usually don’t know a whole lot about a subject when I begin; the process itself teaches me a lot as I go along. Usually I know enough about one narrow area of the subject to start myself going, and then everything – including a lot more research – follows from that.”

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Jim Shepard Quote: “She thought she’d put up with however many years of stonewalling for a good reason, and she’d just figured out that as far as Castle Hubby went, she hadn’t even crossed the moat yet.”

4. “She thought she’d put up with however many years of stonewalling for a good reason, and she’d just figured out that as far as Castle Hubby went, she hadn’t even crossed the moat yet.”

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Jim Shepard Quote: “It turns out that our intuition is a greater genius than we are.”

5. “It turns out that our intuition is a greater genius than we are.”

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Jim Shepard Quote: “I think fiction is all about the exercise of the empathetic imagination. Part of what I do is let the stuff I read about meld with what I have experienced.”

6. “I think fiction is all about the exercise of the empathetic imagination. Part of what I do is let the stuff I read about meld with what I have experienced.”

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Jim Shepard Quote: “I love the box that such a decision puts you in, and I love the interest the reader has in seeing how you negotiate that box: that seemingly hugely narrowed set of options. I also like the way in which it reminds us that we connect to the real world. That our relationship to the world matters.”

7. “I love the box that such a decision puts you in, and I love the interest the reader has in seeing how you negotiate that box: that seemingly hugely narrowed set of options. I also like the way in which it reminds us that we connect to the real world. That our relationship to the world matters.”

— Jim Shepard

Jim Shepard Quote: “The longer you go by yourself the weirder you get, and the weirder you get the longer you go by yourself.”

8. “The longer you go by yourself the weirder you get, and the weirder you get the longer you go by yourself.”

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Jim Shepard Quote: “I do find stories – or literary fiction – an apt form for analyzing the world. And especially for trying to imagine the other. An agenda, again, that seems more important now than ever.”

9. “I do find stories – or literary fiction – an apt form for analyzing the world. And especially for trying to imagine the other. An agenda, again, that seems more important now than ever.”

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Jim Shepard Quote: “I think there’s a playfulness and a distance to Kavalier and Clay that I don’t aspire to in my stuff. Maybe I’m more old-fashioned, and less of a fabulist, in that way.”

10. “I think there’s a playfulness and a distance to Kavalier and Clay that I don’t aspire to in my stuff. Maybe I’m more old-fashioned, and less of a fabulist, in that way.”

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Jim Shepard Quote: “I spend most of my time reading non-fiction of all sorts. Then poetry. Then fiction to blurb. Then fiction I want to read.”

11. “I spend most of my time reading non-fiction of all sorts. Then poetry. Then fiction to blurb. Then fiction I want to read.”

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Jim Shepard Quote: “She said that too often my tongue worked but not my head, or my head worked but not my heart.”

12. “She said that too often my tongue worked but not my head, or my head worked but not my heart.”

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Jim Shepard Quote: “I just go through life not doing anything to anyone, wreaking havoc left and right.”

13. “I just go through life not doing anything to anyone, wreaking havoc left and right.”

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Jim Shepard Quote: “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 mostly research teaches me about the world. Which often shows me the way, in terms of the story.”

14. “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 mostly research teaches me about the world. Which often shows me the way, in terms of the story.”

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Jim Shepard Quote: “Class is the most taboo subject in America. The American media would rather talk about race or perversion or anything else considered taboo before class.”

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

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Jim Shepard Quote: “At home i let myself in and stopped, as if there was nothing for me to do and nowhere for me to go in the face of the pictures in my head.”

16. “At home i let myself in and stopped, as if there was nothing for me to do and nowhere for me to go in the face of the pictures in my head.”

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Jim Shepard Quote: “Disasters occur organically in my work, in that that’s the way my thinking tends, more than that’s what I start out by planning. I’m sort of a catastrophist.”

17. “Disasters occur organically in my work, in that that’s the way my thinking tends, more than that’s what I start out by planning. I’m sort of a catastrophist.”

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Jim Shepard Quote: “I very much like people. I don’t much like writers who don’t.”

18. “I very much like people. I don’t much like writers who don’t.”

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Jim Shepard Quote: “What makes us threaten the things we want most?”

19. “What makes us threaten the things we want most?”

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Jim Shepard Quote: “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 the usefulness of empathy. I do think empathy can be learned. And enhanced.”

20. “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 the usefulness of empathy. I do think empathy can be learned. And enhanced.”

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Jim Shepard Quote: “I channel the rote and the new and unseen. My head has always been the busiest of crossroads, a festival of happy and unhappy arrivals. In the hours before daybreak when I was a boy, god sent me words as visitors.”

21. “I channel the rote and the new and unseen. My head has always been the busiest of crossroads, a festival of happy and unhappy arrivals. In the hours before daybreak when I was a boy, god sent me words as visitors.”

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Jim Shepard Quote: “I’m tempted to do everything. And sometimes I think, “Oh, come on. You can stick that detail somewhere.””

22. “I’m tempted to do everything. And sometimes I think, “Oh, come on. You can stick that detail somewhere.””

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