"I had, by thirteen, developed a sort of……" — David Foster Wallace

"I had, by thirteen, developed a sort of Taoist hubris about my ability to control via non-control."

303 Quotes by David Foster Wallace

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We will, of course, without hesitation use art to parody, ridicule, debunk, or criticize ideologies.
One paradox of professional writing is that books written solely for money and/or acclaim will almost never be good enough…
God, what a ghastly enterprise to be in, though-and what an odd way to achieve success. I'm an exhibitionist who…
When I say or write something, there are actually a whole lot of different things I am communicating. The propositional…
Under fun's new administration, writing fiction becomes a way to go deep inside yourself and illuminate precisely the stuff you…
Of course, the fact that Dostoevsky can tell a juicy story isn't enough to make him great. If it were,…
Some words have to be explicitly uttered, Lenore. Only by actually uttering certain words does one really DO what one…
You have a great deal of yourself on the line, writing- your vanity is at stake. You discover a tricky…
Postmodern irony and cynicism's become an end in itself, a measure of hip sophistication and literary savvy. Few artists dare…
No one can call themselves a writer until he or she has written at least fifty stories.
Molly Notkin often confides on the phone to Joelle van Dyne about the one tormented love of Nokin's life thus…
No single, individual moment is in and of itself unendurable.

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