David Foster Wallace Quotes

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

David Foster Wallace

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 21, 1962 - December 12, 2008

Topics

GodEyesOverSeeI SeeYour

I think people have to recognise that the traditional modes of authority weren't that great.

Jimmy Wales

GreatPeopleThinkAuthorityI Think

With writing, I love doing it, but there's that love-hate relationship: You're not having a good run, you've hit a wall; it's frustrating.

Jim Rash

LoveGoodRelationshipWritingDoing

In other words, I think that if an audience listens to something as an experience of how in tune it is or something of that kind, that the whole point is somehow being missed, and the music has failed.

John Eaton

MusicExperienceWordsThinkKind

I take my work seriously but I can't take myself too seriously. I'm in such a crazy privileged position.

Michael Fassbender

WorkMyselfCrazySeriouslyPosition

I don't feel that I'm explaining the world or teaching people anything. And I'm not trying to be a mirror, showing them what's really going on the world. All I'm trying to do is think of stuff that's funny, just like when I'm kidding around with my friends.

Steven Wright

FunnyMirrorPeopleWorldThink

I've always wanted to shoot a good percentage for my team, because I'm the point guard, and I can take fewer shots, still score more, so that I can get my teammates feeling good about themselves. That was always my feeling - that if I shoot a high percentage, I don't have to shoot a ton.

Steve Nash

GoodTeamFeeling GoodFeelingI Can

I caught on fire twice on the stage, but I was promptly put out. It was just my leg.

Tre Cool

FireStageOutTwiceLegJust

I've never believed it's a fiction writer's job to create an exact replica of the past, a diorama the reader can step right into. But it is my responsibility to learn everything of the world I'm writing about, to become an expert in the politics and history that formed my characters' identities.

Molly Antopol

HistoryResponsibilityPoliticsJob

Almost without exception, President Obama begins serious policy discussions by explaining why everyone else is wrong. After he assigns straw men to your views, he enthusiastically attempts to knock them down with a theatrically earnest re-litigation of what you've missed about his brilliance.

Mitch McConnell

MenYouDownWrongSeriousWhy

We're building the ultimate experience for fun, flexibility, and empowerment where you can rent a car, fill it with discounted gas, meet new people, stop for a Starbucks coffee, and have your earnings deposited into your bank account all in the same day.

Logan Green

CarCoffeeExperienceDayFunYou

Never quit believing that you can develop in life. Never give up. Don't deny the inward spirit that provides the drive to accomplish great things in life.

Jon Huntsman, Sr.

LifeNever Give UpGreatDriveYou

A properly balanced story provides an equal representation of the negative and positive attributes of, I could say the world, but it's actually a being. 'Harry Potter''s a good example. So Harry's the hero, right. But he's tainted with evil. There's a dark and a light in every bit of that narrative. It's well balanced.

Jordan Peterson

PositiveGoodLightHeroEvilWorld

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