David Foster Wallace Quotes

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

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

We're kind of wishing some parents would come back. And of course we're uneasy about the fact that we wish they'd come back - I mean, what's wrong with us? - David Foster Wallace

TV's eal agenda is to be liked, because if you like what you're seeing, you'll stay tuned. TV is completely unabashed about this; it's its sole raison. - David Foster Wallace

To be willing to sort of die in order to move the reader, somehow. Even now I'm scared about how sappy this'll look in print, saying this. - David Foster Wallace

This might be one way to start talking about differences between the early postmodern writers of the fifties and sixties and their contemporary descendants. - David Foster Wallace

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

This is nourishing, redemptive; we become less alone inside. - David Foster Wallace

This diagnosis can be done in about two lines. It doesn't engage anybody. - David Foster Wallace

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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