You don't have to write like David Foster Wallace or James Baldwin or Maggie Nelson - indeed, you shouldn't. Those writers are… — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
I love those adult writers with the pranking ethos, [Don] DeLillo and [Donald] Barthelme and David Foster Wallace. I don't see any… — Mac Barnett Copy Share Image
“David Foster Wallace understood the paradox of attempting to write fiction that spoke to posterity and a contemporary audience simultaneously,” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“David Foster Wallace: We sit around and bitch about how TV has ruined the audience for reading—when really all it’s done is… — David Lipsky Copy Share Image
I'm ashamed and embarrassed to say that I've read very little of David Foster Wallace's work. It's a huge gap in my… — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
Writers such as Richard Powers and the late David Foster Wallace have shown the path to a newer generation of writers for… — Giles Foden Copy Share Image
Although I did admire David Foster Wallace's final unfinished novel about boredom, I'm no DFW, and I want my books to be… — Chris Pavone Copy Share Image
“David (David Foster Wallace) had a caffeine social gift: Her was charmingly, vividly, overwhelmingly awake - he acted on other people like… — David Lipsky Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, I'm not a history buff. I don't read biographies, except of some of those writers whom I've collected over the years… — John Larroquette Copy Share Image
“ List of Artists Who Created Fantasy Worlds to Try and Cure Bouts of Sadness 1. Italo Calvino 2. Gabriel Garcia Marquez… — Shane Jones Copy Share Image
“The horrific struggle to establish a human self results in a self whose humanity is inseparable from that horrific struggle: That our… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
While Max appears to greatly admire Wallace as a writer and feel compassion for him as a man, he is never starry-eyed,… — Elissa Schappell Copy Share Image
“Books are a social substitute; you read people who, at one level, you'd like to hang out with. [David Foster Wallace]'s writing… — David Lipsky Copy Share Image
“Writer David Foster Wallace said that he thought good nonfiction was a chance to “watch somebody reasonably bright but also reasonably average… — Austin Kleon Copy Share Image
“In his commencement address at Kenyon College, the novelist and social critic David Foster Wallace eloquently said, “In the day-to-day trenches of… — John Mark Comer Copy Share Image
“David Lipsky: Why aren't you married at thirty-four? David Foster Wallace: You first. David Lipsky: Um-I think it's hard to fill that… — David Lipsky Copy Share Image
“I am a writer who does not enjoy writing. I can find innumerable ways to avoid it. But, to rip off Dorothy… — Adrienne Martini Copy Share Image
“David Foster Wallace: I think the reason why people behave in an ugly manner is that it’s really scary to be alive… — David Lipsky Copy Share Image
“In the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not… — Joshua Fields Millburn Copy Share Image
I'm influenced by Jennifer Egan, Dave Eggers, David Foster Wallace: writers who are often not content to just stack paragraphs and have… — Jesse Andrews Copy Share Image
I am in that everything [ David Foster Wallace] writes is pretty much the best stuff I've read, so that makes me… — John Krasinski Copy Share Image
“David Foster Wallace: Because I'd like to be the sort of person who can enjoy things at the time instead of having… — David Lipsky Copy Share Image
“David Foster Wallace: I always fear that when I really impose my will on something, the universe is gonna punish me.” — David Lipsky Copy Share Image
My occupation has been a great deal with David Foster Wallace, and he didn't manage it, and he was very much looking… — Tom Courtenay Copy Share Image
“He [David Foster Wallace] compares raising children to raising books, you should take pride in the work you do inside a family… — David Lipsky Copy Share Image
David Foster Wallace was a brilliant experimentalist who I deeply admire. His ability to do formalism helped me understand how to tackle… — Alexander Weinstein Copy Share Image
I think my heart always goes out to men at the peak of their celebrity who checked out. There's such an odd,… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“David Foster Wallace: There’s so much beauty and profundity in all kinds of shitty pop culture all around us.” — David Lipsky Copy Share Image
“Fight the Boredom To be, in a word, unborable. … It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to… — Sophia Amoruso Copy Share Image
“In The Pale King, David Foster Wallace has his narrator remark that “it was a little bit like a for-profit company, my… — William Deresiewicz Copy Share Image
“There is something deeply surreal about standing behind a female performer in hotpink peau de soie, a woman whose clitoris and perineum… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“Distraction, rather than being occasional and derivative, becomes perpetual and primary. Rather than being a diversion from the main thing you do,… — Andrew S. Miller Copy Share Image
“that always leads to disappointment. False gods never give us what they promise. We have already looked at David Foster Wallace’s powerful… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Mr. Franzen said he and Mr. Wallace, over years of letters and conversations about the ethical role of the novelist, had come… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
And I think that the ultimate way you and I get lucky is if you have some success early in life, you… — David Lipsky Copy Share Image
Work ethic and this determination is all part of escaping the depressive side. Of course I'm manic depressive, maybe not to the… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
David Foster Wallace is a big idol of mine. His writing is so clear that for years I'd read him and think,… — Damian Kulash Copy Share Image
“The reality is that dying isn’t bad, but it takes forever. And that forever is no time at all. I know that… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
![“I love those adult writers with the pranking ethos, [Don] DeLillo and [Donald] Barthelme and David Foster Wallace. I don't see any reason not to bring those kinds of influences to bear on books for children.” quote by Mac Barnett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/cf9/mac-barnett-23936_adults_i-love-those-adult-writers-with-the-pran_1437529.jpg)
![“Books are a social substitute; you read people who, at one level, you'd like to hang out with. [David Foster Wallace]'s writing self--it's most pronounced in his essays--was the best friend you'd ever have, spotting everything, whispering jokes, sweeping you past what was irritating or boring or…” quote by David Lipsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/4f4/david-lipsky-30389_best-friend_books-are-a-social-substitute-you-read-p_2172757.jpg)
![“I am in that everything [ David Foster Wallace] writes is pretty much the best stuff I've read, so that makes me a fan I guess.” quote by John Krasinski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/73f/john-krasinski-4756_fans_i-am-in-that-everything-david-foster-wal_1900900.jpg)
![“He [David Foster Wallace] compares raising children to raising books, you should take pride in the work you do inside a family and not from how they make out in the world. “It’s good to want a child to do well, but it’s bad to want that glory to reflect back on you,” is what he says.” quote by David Lipsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a4b/david-lipsky-30389_books_he-david-foster-wallace-compares-raising_1575049.jpg)
