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
beach rain sky
And when he came to, he was flat on his back on the beach in the freezing sand, and it was raining out of a low sky, and the tide was way out.
hate love-you way
I love the way you love, but I hate the way I'm supposed to love you back.
girl folks discomfort
She had a brainy girls discomfort about her own beauty and its effects on folks.
crush selfish simple
I felt despair. The word’s overused and banalified now, despair, but it’s a serious word, and I’m using it seriously. For me it denotes a simple admixture — a weird yearning for death combined with a crushing sense of my own smallness and futility that presents as a fear of death. It’s maybe close to what people call dread or angst. But it’s not these things, quite. It’s more like wanting to die in order to escape the unbearable feeling of becoming aware that I’m small and weak and selfish and going without any doubt at all to die. It’s wanting to jump overboard.
sadness hatred my-love-for-you
There is no hatred in my love for you. Only a sadness I feel all the more strongly for my inability to explain or describe it.
sky sun assuming
...the sun would leave my sky if I couldn't assume you'd simply come and tell me you were sad.
ideas stories reader
We're not keen on the idea of the story sharing its valence with the reader. But the reader's own life "outside" the story changes the story.
choices what-if temples
What if sometimes there is no choice about what to love? What if the temple comes to Mohammed? What if you just love? without deciding? You just do: you see her and in that instant are lost to sober account-keeping and cannot choose but to love?
differences talking might
This might be one way to start talking about differences between the early postmodern writers of the fifties and sixties and their contemporary descendants.
pleasure ends western
Pleasure becomes a value, a teleological end in itself. It's probably more Western than U.S. per se.
court persons conditions
I knew my limitations and the limitations of the courts I played on, and adjusted thusly. I was at my best in bad conditions.
differences citizens guests
I have heard upscale adult U.S. citizens ask the ship's Guest Relations Desk whether snorkeling necessitates getting wet...I now know the precise mixocological difference between a Slippery Nipple and a fuzzy navel.
new-york mean finite-number
Molly Notkin often confides on the phone to Joelle van Dyne about the one tormented love of Nokin's life thus far, an erotically circumscribed G.W. Pabst scholar at New York University tortured by the neurotic compulsion that there are only a finite number of erections possible in the world at any one time and that his tumescence means e.g. the detumescence of some perhaps more deserving or tortured Third World sorghum farmer
loneliness fiction relieved
Fiction is one of the few experiences where loneliness can be both confronted and relieved.