"I will probably write an hour a day……" — David Foster Wallace
"I will probably write an hour a day and spend eight hours a day biting my knuckle and worrying about not writing."
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303 Quotes by David Foster Wallace
David Foster Wallace has 303 quotes on this site.
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We will, of course, without hesitation use art to parody, ridicule, debunk, or criticize ideologies.
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One paradox of professional writing is that books written solely for money and/or acclaim will almost never be good enough…
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God, what a ghastly enterprise to be in, though-and what an odd way to achieve success. I'm an exhibitionist who…
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When I say or write something, there are actually a whole lot of different things I am communicating. The propositional…
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Under fun's new administration, writing fiction becomes a way to go deep inside yourself and illuminate precisely the stuff you…
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Of course, the fact that Dostoevsky can tell a juicy story isn't enough to make him great. If it were,…
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Some words have to be explicitly uttered, Lenore. Only by actually uttering certain words does one really DO what one…
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You have a great deal of yourself on the line, writing- your vanity is at stake. You discover a tricky…
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Postmodern irony and cynicism's become an end in itself, a measure of hip sophistication and literary savvy. Few artists dare…
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No one can call themselves a writer until he or she has written at least fifty stories.
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Molly Notkin often confides on the phone to Joelle van Dyne about the one tormented love of Nokin's life thus…
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No single, individual moment is in and of itself unendurable.
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More Biting Quotes
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I just like to catch fish, I don't care if it weighs half a pound or 10 pounds. But I…
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A lot of people don't realize that about 98 percent of the running I put in is anything but glamorous:…
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Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.
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We go, in winter's biting wind, On many a short-lived winter day, With aching back but willing mind To dig…
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I'm not really dying today. No person ever died that had a family. I'll be around a long time. A…
— Ray Bradbury
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I’m not a mean person, but I have a capacity for it. I have the biting comment formed somewhere in…
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It was unbelievable seeing me as an action figure! In a few months, toddlers all around the country will be…
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If anything, as a general rule, the cheaper the movie the more creative the experience, generally speaking. Its not to…
— Alfred Molina
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I can't stop biting my nails. It's a bad habit of mine. I like anything to do with math and…
— Khleo
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Intellectual controversies tend to be like dog fights without the teeth, in which the barking not the biting does the…
— Luis Fernando Verissimo
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Remember that postcard Grandpa sent us from Florida of that Alligator biting that woman's bottom? That's right, we all thought…
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