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Stories 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…
- No one can call themselves a writer until he or she has written at least fifty stories.
- Kafka's evocations are, rather, unconscious and almost sub-archetypal, the little-kid stuff from which myths derive; this is why we tend to call even his weirdest…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- So yo then man what's your story?
- This story ["The Depressed Person"] was the most painful thing I ever wrote. It's about narcissism, which is a part of depression. The character has…
- Every love story is a ghost story.
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