David Foster Wallace was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and professor of English and creative writing.
Quotes of David Foster Wallace
1. 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.
2. I often think I can see it in myself and in other young writers, this desperate desire to please coupled with a kind of hostility to the reader.
3. For these cultures, getting rid of the pain without addressing the deeper cause would be like shutting off a fire alarm while the fire’s still going.
4. The interesting thing is why we’re so desperate for this anesthetic against loneliness.
5. One of the things that makes Wittgenstein a real artist to me is that he realized that no conclusion could be more horrible than solipsism.
6. 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.
7. It looks like you can write a minimalist piece without much bleeding. And you can. But not a good one.
8. 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?
9. This might be one way to start talking about differences between the early postmodern writers of the fifties and sixties and their contemporary descendants.
10. It seems important to find ways of reminding ourselves that most ‘familiarity’ is meditated and delusive.
By Shweta Tiwari
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