Boundaries Quote by Giles Foden

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

— David Foster Wallace

I'm ashamed and embarrassed to say that I've read very little of David Foster Wallace's work. It's a huge gap in my education, one…

— Ben Fountain

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

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

Every genuinely literary style, from the high authorial voice to Foster Wallace and his footnotes-within-footnotes, requires the reader to see the world from somewhere…

— Zadie Smith

“David Foster Wallace: What writers have is a license and also the freedom to sit—to sit, clench their fists, and make themselves be excruciatingly…

— David Lipsky

“Wallace’s philosophy in The Pale King (TPK 546) is that we can ride out waves of boredom and oblivion into bliss and conscious (re)discovery,…

— Greg Carlisle

Tim Powers is a brilliant writer.

— William Gibson

The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of the past, just as it is bound to modify…

— Jorge Luis Borges

Every writer creates his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future.

— Jorge Luis Borges

Writers are the main landmarks of the past.

— Anonymous