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Great Quotes by David Foster Wallace
- Of course, the fact that Dostoevsky can tell a juicy story isn't enough to make him great. If it were, Judith Krantz and John Grisham…
- You have a great deal of yourself on the line, writing- your vanity is at stake. You discover a tricky thing about fiction writing; a…
- Postmodern irony and cynicism's become an end in itself, a measure of hip sophistication and literary savvy. Few artists dare to try to talk about…
- Great short stories and great jokes have a lot in common. Both depend on what communication-theorists sometimes called "exformation," which is a certain quantity of…
- But of course there are all kinds of freedom, and the kind that is most precious you will not hear much talked about in the…
- 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…
- 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…
- The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart, gets up above them so we can see the flaws and hypocrisies and duplicates.
- Are we not all of us fanatics? I say only what you of the U.S.A. pretend you do not know. Attachments are of great seriousness.…
- Literary fiction and poetry are real marginalized right now. There's a fallacy that some of my friends sometimes fall into, the ol' "The audience is…
- What the really great artists do is they're entirely themselves. They're entirely themselves, they've got their own vision, they have their own way of fracturing…
- He knew what the Beats know and what the great tennis player knows, son: learn to do nothing, with your whole head and body, and…
- It took years after I’d graduated from Amherst to realize that people were actually far more complicated and interesting than books, that almost everyone else…
- Our attachments are our temple, what we worship, no? What we give ourselves to, what we invest with faith. . . . Attachments are of…
- ... it takes great personal courage to let yourself appear weak.
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- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
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