Awful Quote by Harold Bloom

“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

“Infinite Jest is an endurance contest. You manage to get through it and you have no choice but to say you like it.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

“[The entire text of Infinite Jest.]”

— David Foster Wallace

“Infinite Jest is a masterpiece,” Harvey had said. “Infinite Jest is an endurance contest. You manage to get through it and you have no…

— Gabrielle Zevin

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

— David Foster Wallace

“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

“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

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

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

I've often said to myself, "Thank God I can write, 'cause this is hilarious." I actually wanted to go into all that more in…

— Carrie Fisher

“David Foster Wallace: There’s so much beauty and profundity in all kinds of shitty pop culture all around us.”

— David Lipsky

“He who would be a writer, fine, Must take a deal of pains, Must criticize his every line, And mix his ink with brains.”

— Platt Rogers Spencer