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
secret
There are secrets within secrets, though--always.
hypocrisy splits irony
The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart, gets up above them so we can see the flaws and hypocrisies and duplicates.
eye color sun
I cannot say what color Lenore Beadsman’s eyes are; I cannot look at them; they are the sun to me.
teacher taken class
What teachers and the administration in that era never seemed to see was that the mental work of what they called daydreaming often required more effort and concentration than it would have taken simply to listen in class. Laziness is not the issue. It is just not the work dictated by the administration.
bottles labels smooth
She wanted only tall smooth bottles whose labels spoke of Proof.
saws realism ifs
If Realism called it like it saw it, Metafiction simply called it as it saw itself seeing itself see it.
airplane writing next
A novelist has to know enough about a subject to fool the passenger next to him on an airplane.
love-is trying care
Say the whole point of love is to try to get your fingers through the holes in the lover's mask. To get some kind of hold on the mask, and who cares how you do it.
rejection connections painful
The severing of an established connection is exponentially more painful than the rejection of an attempted connection.
thinking smoking easy
I think it's easy to stop smoking; it's just hard not to commit a felony after you stop.
loneliness solitude function
...loneliness is not a function of solitude.
support important vivid
Everything in my own immediate experience supports my deep belief that I am the absolute center of the universe, the realest, most vivid and important person in existence.
nihilism stills
Most of us will still take nihilism over neanderthalism.
thinking dies what-you-love
You are what you love. No? You are, completely and only, what you would die for without, as you say, the thinking twice.