David Foster Wallace
David Foster Wallace
David Foster Wallacewas an American novelist, short story writer, and essayist, as well as a professor of English and creative writing. Wallace's 1996 novel Infinite Jest was cited by Time magazine as one of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to 2005...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth21 February 1962
CountryUnited States of America
home men faces
When they were introduced, he made a witticism, hoping to be liked. She laughed extremely hard, hoping to be liked. Then each drove home alone, staring straight ahead, with the very same twist to their faces. The man who'd introduced them didn't much like either of them, though he acted as if he did, anxious as he was to preserve good relations at all times. One never knew, after all, now did one now did one now did one.
want sound made
I'd tell you all you want and more, if the sounds I made could be what you hear
light lambs littles
Mary had a little lamb, its fleece electrostatic / And everywhere Mary went, the lights became erratic.
writing innocent sentences
There are very few innocent sentences in writing.
pain real character
We all suffer alone in the real world. True empathy's impossible. But if a piece of fiction can alow us imaginatively to identify with a character's pain, we might then also more easily conceive of others identifying with their own. This is nourishing, redemptive; we become less alone inside. It might just be that simple.
missing-someone like-you infinite-jest
It's weird to feel like you miss someone you're not even sure you know.
reality important obvious
...the most obvious, ubiquitous, important realities are often the ones that are hardest to see and talk about.
strong real loneliness
Most of the writers I know are weird hybrids. There's a strong streak of egomania coupled with extreme shyness. Writing's kind of like exhibitionism in private. And there's also a strange loneliness, and a desire to have some kind of conversation with people, but not a real great ability to do it in person.
people attention authority
People, unless they're paying attention, tend to confuse fanciness with intelligence or authority.
luck wish way
I wish you way more than luck.
important engineers happens
Almost nothing important that ever happens to you happens because you engineer it.
lonely loneliness being-alone
We're all lonely for something we don't know we're lonely for. How else to explain the curious feeling that goes around feeling like missing somebody we've never even met?
inspirational letting-go mark
Everything I’ve ever let go of has claw marks on it.
ghost-stories love-story jest
Every love story is a ghost story.