Author: David Foster Wallace

Quotes

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

This is nourishing, redemptive; we become less alone inside.

This is nourishing, redemptive; we become less alone inside.

- David Foster Wallace

This is so American, man: either make something your God and cosmos and then worship it, or else kill it.

This is so American, man: either make something your God and cosmos and then worship it, or else kill it.

- 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

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

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 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

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

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