“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 understood the paradox of attempting to write fiction that spoke to posterity and a contemporary audience simultaneously,” — David Foster Wallace 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
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 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: 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
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
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: I always fear that when I really impose my will on something, the universe is gonna punish me.” — 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
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
“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
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
“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
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![“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)
![“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)
