Best David Foster Wallace Sayings
- The fun of reading as "an exchange between consciousnesses, a way for human beings to talk to each other about stuff we can't normally talk… Beings
- I love the way you love, but I hate the way I'm supposed to love you back. Hate
- Almost anything that you pay close, direct attention to becomes interesting. Almost Anything
- We're not keen on the idea of the story sharing its valence with the reader. But the reader's own life "outside" the story changes the… Changes
- This might be one way to start talking about differences between the early postmodern writers of the fifties and sixties and their contemporary descendants. Contemporary
- The lives of most people are small tight pallid and sad, more to be mourned than their deaths. We starve at the banquet: We cannot… Asleep
- Ideally, each piece of art's its own unique object, and its evaluation's always present-tense. Always Present
- Fiction, poetry, music...these are the places (for me) where loneliness is countenanced, stared down, transfigured, treated. Countenanced
- There is such a thing as raw, unalloyed, agendaless kindness. Agendaless
- Good writing isn’t a science. It’s an art, and the horizon is infinite. You can always get better. Always Get
- People, unless they're paying attention, tend to confuse fanciness with intelligence or authority. Attention
- I submit that tennis is the most beautiful sport there is and also the most demanding. It requires body control, hand-eye coordination, quickness, flat-out speed,… Abandon
- If your fidelity to perfectionism is too high, you never do anything. Fidelity
- Look, man, we'd probably most of us agree that these are dark times, and stupid ones, but do we need fiction that does nothing but… Agree
- Stay conscious and alive, day in and day out. Alive
- In the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships.… Adult
- Most of the writers I know are weird hybrids. There's a strong streak of egomania coupled with extreme shyness. Writing's kind of like exhibitionism in… Ability
- Fiction is about what it is to be a human being. Fiction
- Nothing brings you together like a common enemy. Brings
- The point of books is to combat loneliness. Book
- For me, boviscopophobia is an even stronger motive than semi-agoraphobia for staying on the ship when we're in port. Agoraphobia
- This diagnosis can be done in about two lines. It doesn't engage anybody. Anybody
- Lucky people develop a relationship with a certain kind of art that becomes spiritual, almost religious, and doesn’t mean, you know, church stuff, but it… Almost Religious
- In the broadest possible sense, writing well means to communicate clearly and interestingly and in a way that feels alive to the reader. Where there’s… Alive
- If you worship money and things, if they are where you tap real meaning in life, then you will never have enough, never feel you… Age
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