Kind Quotes by David Foster Wallace

“This kind of fiction doesn't interest me.”

— david foster wallace

God seems to have a kind of laid-back management style I’m not crazy about.

— David Foster Wallace

she committed suicide by putting her extremities down the garbage disposal-first one arm and then, kind of miraculously if you think about…

— David Foster Wallace

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…

— David Foster Wallace

I had kind of a midlife crisis at twenty which probably doesn’t augur well for my longevity

— David Foster Wallace

There's a weird kind of paradox that the more expensive the vacation is, the more potentially anxiety-producing it is.

— David Foster Wallace

I often think I can see it in myself and in other young writers, this desperate desire to please coupled with a…

— David Foster Wallace

Say the whole point of love is to try to get your fingers through the holes in the lover's mask. To get…

— David Foster Wallace

I think the only thing for me, the tricky thing with the footnotes, is that they are an irritant, and they require…

— David Foster Wallace

What passes for hip cynical transcendence of sentiment is really some kind of fear of being really human, since to be really…

— David Foster Wallace

America, as everybody knows, is a country of many contradictions, and a big contradiction for a long time has been between a…

— David Foster Wallace

Lucky people develop a relationship with a certain kind of art that becomes spiritual, almost religious, and doesn’t mean, you know, church…

— David Foster Wallace

In the broadest possible sense, writing well means to communicate clearly and interestingly and in a way that feels alive to the…

— David Foster Wallace

Most of the writers I know are weird hybrids. There's a strong streak of egomania coupled with extreme shyness. Writing's kind of…

— David Foster Wallace

The greatest sin is appearing naive or old-fashioned so that somebody can give you a sort of a very cool arch smile…

— David Foster Wallace

Learning how to think" really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious…

— David Foster Wallace

There's a certain kind of neurological makeup that goes along with being a writer, and having been in the room with a…

— David Foster Wallace

A lot of writers tired of doing kind of hip, slick, funny, dark, exploding hypocrisy, underlining once again the point that life…

— David Foster Wallace

Dostoevsky wrote fiction about identity, moral value, death, will, sexual vs. spiritual love, greed, freedom, obsession, reason, faith, suicide. And he did…

— David Foster Wallace

There's a kind of Ah-ha! Somebody at least for a moment feels about something or sees something the way that I do.…

— David Foster Wallace

If you're writing fiction, you're dealing with characters who, themselves, will have heartfelt sentiments but who, themselves, live in this culture right…

— David Foster Wallace

The basic idea that the purpose of life is to be happy or is to experience the most favorable ratio of pleasure…

— David Foster Wallace

But there are all different kinds of freedom, and the kind that is most precious you will not hear much talked about…

— David Foster Wallace

The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other…

— David Foster Wallace

I'll say God seems to have a kind of laid-back management style I'm not crazy about. I'm pretty much anti-death. God looks…

— David Foster Wallace

Great short stories and great jokes have a lot in common. Both depend on what communication-theorists sometimes called "exformation," which is a…

— David Foster Wallace

…there is an ending [to Infinite Jest] as far as I'm concerned. Certain kind of parallel lines are supposed to start converging…

— David Foster Wallace

But of course there are all kinds of freedom, and the kind that is most precious you will not hear much talked…

— David Foster Wallace