Author: David Foster Wallace

Quotes

It can become an exercise in trying to get the reader to like and admire you instead of an exercise in creative art.

It can become an exercise in trying to get the reader to like and admire you instead of an exercise in creative art.

- David Foster Wallace

The reader becomes God, for all textual purposes. I see your eyes glazing over, so I'll hush.

The reader becomes God, for all textual purposes. I see your eyes glazing over, so I'll hush.

- David Foster Wallace

I just think that fiction that isn't exploring what it means to be human today isn't art.

I just think that fiction that isn't exploring what it means to be human today isn't art.

- David Foster Wallace

What TV is extremely good at - and realize that this is 'all it does' - is discerning what large numbers of people think they want, and supplying it.

What TV is extremely good at - and realize that this is 'all it does' - is discerning what large numbers of people think they want, and supplying it.

- David Foster Wallace

The problem is that once the rules of art are debunked, and once the unpleasant realities the irony diagnoses are revealed and diagnosed, 'then' what do we do?

The problem is that once the rules of art are debunked, and once the unpleasant realities the irony diagnoses are revealed and diagnosed, 'then' what do we do?

- David Foster Wallace

The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart, gets up above them so we can see the flaws and hypocrisies and duplicates.

The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart, gets up above them so we can see the flaws and hypocrisies and duplicates.

- David Foster Wallace

We're not keen on the idea of the story sharing its valence with the reader. But the reader's own life 'outside' the story changes the story.

We're not keen on the idea of the story sharing its valence with the reader. But the reader's own life 'outside' the story changes the story.

- David Foster Wallace

I think TV promulgates the idea that good art is just art which makes people like and depend on the vehicle that brings them the art.

I think TV promulgates the idea that good art is just art which makes people like and depend on the vehicle that brings them the art.

- David Foster Wallace

It looks like you can write a minimalist piece without much bleeding. And you can. But not a good one.

It looks like you can write a minimalist piece without much bleeding. And you can. But not a good one.

- David Foster Wallace

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