Foster Wallace Quotes
- Every genuinely literary style, from the high authorial voice to Foster Wallace and his footnotes-within-footnotes, requires the reader to see the world from somewhere in… — Zadie Smith
- Mr. Franzen said he and Mr. Wallace, over years of letters and conversations about the ethical role of the novelist, had come to the joint… — Jonathan Franzen
- David Foster Wallace: I think one of the insidious lessons about TV is the meta-lesson that you’re dumb. This is all you can do. This… — David Lipsky
- And I think that the ultimate way you and I get lucky is if you have some success early in life, you get to find… — David Lipsky
- Writers such as Richard Powers and the late David Foster Wallace have shown the path to a newer generation of writers for whom all national… — Giles Foden
- I think of reading like a balanced diet; if your sentences are too baggy, too baroque, cut back on fatty Foster Wallace, say, and pick… — Zadie Smith