Admire Quote by Elissa Schappell

“David Foster Wallace understood the paradox of attempting to write fiction that spoke to posterity and a contemporary audience simultaneously,”

— David Foster Wallace

A damnably readable, streamlined, yet deeply researched work. Skipping the ancestors and aftermath of conventional biography, Max gives us the man, his work, and…

— Blake Bailey

Every love story is a ghost story.

— David Foster Wallace

I am in that everything [ David Foster Wallace] writes is pretty much the best stuff I've read, so that makes me a fan…

— John Krasinski

David Foster Wallace is a big idol of mine. His writing is so clear that for years I'd read him and think, My God,…

— Damian Kulash

David Foster Wallace was a brilliant experimentalist who I deeply admire. His ability to do formalism helped me understand how to tackle stories like…

— Alexander Weinstein

Mr. Franzen said he and Mr. Wallace, over years of letters and conversations about the ethical role of the novelist, had come to the…

— Jonathan Franzen

The best love stories on film are rooted in the point of view of the more woundable, vulnerable party, the more amorous party.

— Todd Haynes

Writers such as Richard Powers and the late David Foster Wallace have shown the path to a newer generation of writers for whom all…

— Giles Foden

A simple love story can be made into an interesting film if the film-maker can think differently.

— Kay Kay Menon

“IT’S HARDLY a coincidence that “Shipping Out,” Wallace’s most well-known essay, appeared only a month before Infinite Jest, his most well-known novel, was published.…

— David Shields

Every movie is a love story.

— Sandra Bullock