Want Quotes by David Foster Wallace

Psychotics, say what you want about them, tend to make the first move.

— David Foster Wallace

Dieting makes me want to murder everyone around me.

— David Foster Wallace

“...perversely, it is often more fun to want something than to have it.”

— David Foster Wallace

If you've never wept and want to, have a child.

— David Foster Wallace

I'd tell you all you want and more, if the sounds I made could be what you hear

— David Foster Wallace

“it is often more fun to want something than to have it.”

— David Foster Wallace

I don't want to hurt myself. I want to stop hurting.

— David Foster Wallace

The job of the first eight pages is not to have the reader want to throw the book at the wall, during…

— David Foster Wallace

K--: 'When they say "I am my own person," "I do not need a man," "I am responsible for my own sexuality,"…

— David Foster Wallace

What TV is extremely good at - and realize that this is 'all it does' - is discerning what large numbers of…

— David Foster Wallace

The desire for perfect release and the real-world impossibility of perfect, whenever-you-want-it release had together produced a tension they could no longer…

— David Foster Wallace

I believe I want adult sanity, which seems to me the only unalloyed form of heroism available today.

— David Foster Wallace

God, what a ghastly enterprise to be in, though-and what an odd way to achieve success. I'm an exhibitionist who wants to…

— David Foster Wallace

If you're automatically sure that you know what reality is and who and what is really important-if you want to operate on…

— David Foster Wallace

Am I a good person? Deep down, do I even really want to be a good person, or do I only want…

— David Foster Wallace

Under fun's new administration, writing fiction becomes a way to go deep inside yourself and illuminate precisely the stuff you don't want…

— David Foster Wallace

I want to tell you,' the voice on the phone said. 'My head is filled with things to say.' ... 'I don't…

— David Foster Wallace

Literary fiction and poetry are real marginalized right now. There's a fallacy that some of my friends sometimes fall into, the ol'…

— David Foster Wallace

Is it possible really to love other people? If I’m lonely and in pain, everyone outside me is potential relief—I need them.…

— David Foster Wallace

An ad that pretends to be art is -- at absolute best -- like somebody who smiles warmly at you only because…

— David Foster Wallace

The Sophists had this idea: Forget this idea of what's true or not—what you want to do is rhetoric; you want to…

— David Foster Wallace