Fiction Quote by David Foster Wallace Download Open image ““Good fiction’s job is to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.”” — David Foster Wallace ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Comfort Disturbed Disturb Comfortable Fiction Fiction Job Good Fiction On-fiction
“I had a teacher I liked who used to say good fiction’s job was to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“Fiction cannot move so much, but that the attention may be easily transferred; and though it must be allowed that pleasing melancholy be sometimes… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Good fiction is life with all the boring bits taken out, not with all the hardship taken out.” — Caro Clarke Copy Share Image
“Once in a while, when reality is too painful to bear, fiction can help us to restore the fragility of our human condition.” — Frances Stead Stellers Copy Share Image
“Sometimes fiction is a way of coping with the poison of the world in a way that lets us survive it.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Good fiction is not defined by the masses, but by the tentative ear.” — James D. Maxon Copy Share Image
“Good fiction is trawling back into the past and digging up the real characters who've influenced your entire being.” — Ken Scott Copy Share Image
“I like to think of weird fiction as an unceasing distortion and buckling of ambient space and time; where plot, theme, atmosphere and voice… — Helen Marshall Copy Share Image
“Keeping up the fiction. You have to keep it up, sometimes, no matter how you feel.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Only fiction has the power to cross the mental barricades, to make strangers intelligible to each other, because it moves people's hearts as well… — Ian Leslie Copy Share Image
“Fiction is a great combination between experience and imagination.” — Desi Puspitasari Copy Share Image
“I felt more solidly composed, now that I was horizontal. I was impossible to knock down.” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“We all have our little solipsistic delusions, ghastly intuitions of utter singularity: that we are the only one in the house who ever fills… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“It's no accident that in a bureaucracy getting fired is called 'termination,' as in ontological erasure.” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Footnote: 79) The anchor is gigantic and must weigh a hundred tons, and -- delightfully -- it really is anchor-shaped, i.e. the same shape… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“The paradoxical intercourse of audience and celebrity. The suppressed awareness that the whole reason ordinary people found celebrity fascinating was that they were not,… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“I am coming to see that the sensation of the worst nightmares, a sensation that can be felt asleep or awake, is identical to… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“He cranks the condo’s AC way down at night and still most mornings wakes up soaked, fetally curled, entombed in that kind of psychic… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“To me, at least in retrospect, the really interesting question is why dullness proves to be such a powerful impediment to attention. Why we… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“If you’re subjected to enough great salesmen and salespitches and marketing concepts for long enough—like from your earliest Saturday-morning cartoons, let’s say—it is only… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“Why is the truth usually not just un- but anti-interesting?” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“She almost reminds the engineer of certain types in high school whom everyone adored because you sensed it made no difference to them whether… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
To be, in a word, unborable… It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“…progress isn't necessarily about change but about things turning out as we want them to” — Phil Hogan Copy Share Image
The thing about science fiction is that it's totally wide open. But it's wide open in a conditional way. — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
I do think that theater is a great venue for science fiction, and not just adaptations but also original work. I also think some… — Edward Einhorn Copy Share Image
Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
I love writing fiction and can do it anywhere - I once even missed a flight because I was so engrossed. — Prue Leith Copy Share Image
I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth:… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
There's always that discussion about fiction about how do you market it - these are books for boys, these are books for girls, these… — L.A. Weatherly Copy Share Image
Inspiration comes from so many sources. Music, other fiction, the non-fiction I read, TV shows, films, news reports, people I know, stories I hear,… — Trudi Canavan Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in making a diagnostic novel or a concern. I'm 100 percent committed in fiction to the pleasure principle - that's what… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“His hands on my waist he gently pulled me n embrace. I could feel his breath on my face our lips were about to… — Nicole Eglinger Copy Share Image
