David Foster Wallace
David Foster Wallace
David Foster Wallacewas an American novelist, short story writer, and essayist, as well as a professor of English and creative writing. Wallace's 1996 novel Infinite Jest was cited by Time magazine as one of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to 2005...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth21 February 1962
CountryUnited States of America
David Foster Wallace quotes about
distress restroom concentrating
I am concentrating docilely on the question why U.S. restrooms always appear to us as infirmaries for public distress, the place to reagain control.
prodigies handle
Here is how to handle being a feral prodigy.
manhattan tvs blame
All I'm saying is that it's shortsighted to blame TV. It's simply another symptom. TV didn't invent our aesthetic childishness here any more than the Manhattan Project invented aggression.
sarcasm care bottles
sarcasm and jokes were often the bottle in which clinical depressives sent out their most plangent screams for someone to care and help them.
egoism
That what appears to be egoism so often isn't.
caring years giving
It now lately sometimes seemed a black miracle to me that people could actually care deeply about a subject or pursuit, and could go on caring this way for years on end. Could dedicate their entire lives to it. It seemed admirable and at the same time pathetic. We are all dying to give our lives away to something, maybe.
expression ideas dying
He didn't reject the idea so much as not react to it and watch as it floated away. He thought very broadly of desires and ideas being watched but not acted upon, he thought of impulses being starved of expression and dying out and floating dryly away.
underestimate objects
Do not underestimate objects.
loneliness book combat
The point of books is to combat loneliness.
one-line enough paranoid
I know I'm paranoid, but am I paranoid enough?
american-writer course fact uneasy wishing
We're kind of wishing some parents would come back. And of course we're uneasy about the fact that we wish they'd come back - I mean, what's wrong with us?
american-writer human
Fiction's about what it is to be a human being.
hubris ability thirteen
I had, by thirteen, developed a sort of Taoist hubris about my ability to control via non-control.
singing acting helping
I'm screaming for help and everybody's acting as if I'm singing Ethel Merman covers...