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
“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
“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
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
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
“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
“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
“how I see the distinction between sexism and misogyny. When a husband tells his wife, “I can’t quite explain why and I… — Hillary Rodham Clinton 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
“At this point I feel I would be remiss to not mention the prevalence of a specific kind of person who enters… — Sloane Crosley 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
“David Foster Wallace: What writers have is a license and also the freedom to sit—to sit, clench their fists, and make themselves… — David Lipsky 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
“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
“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
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: I think one of the insidious lessons about TV is the meta-lesson that you’re dumb. This is all you… — David Lipsky 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
“So the novelist David Foster Wallace, not long before his suicide, spoke these words to the 2005 graduating class at Kenyon College:… — Timothy Keller 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
There are authors like David Foster Wallace or Raymond Chandler - with voice-based authors I might end up a completist, because what… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
