“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
“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
“ 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
“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
“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
“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
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'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
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
“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
“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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
“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
“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
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
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
“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
“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