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.
Quotes to Explore
-
A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will not be erased.
-
Elvis was a big influence to my music, but Loretta Lynn was, as well.
-
The death tax robs parents of the opportunity to pass something along to their children, and it is responsible for destroying a lot of family-owned businesses.
-
Certainly, I devote my energy to both telling my personal life story and seeking self- obliteration. However, I will not destroy myself through art.
-
You can't embarrass Joss Whedon, he's got no pride! He fully admits it. 'Oh, it's me. I'm little and goofy.' You can't wound his pride. He's too self-deprecating.
-
I don't really have a main source for my style inspiration. It's really about however I feel about myself at the moment.
-
Every city is always changing, on its own trajectory.
-
My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'
-
Shaming people into being virtuous doesn't change behaviour.
-
I realized that if my thoughts immediately affect my body, I should be careful about what I think. Now if I get angry, I ask myself why I feel that way. If I can find the source of my anger, I can turn that negative energy into something positive.
-
The most common criticism I've seen is that I write 'popcorn fantasy:' lightweight action-adventure. Some people call it that as they explain why they love it for exactly that reason. I'm cool with that, either way. I just nod and let it go.
-
Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
-
My position is that since the non-secular status of my garden is not recognised by the law; by the world of the public, then the garden can only be private. So, I closed the garden to the public.
-
I didn't go to law school to become a lawyer, per se - let's just say I was leaning in to some strong suggestions from my parents - but my nebulous goals of someday becoming a writer were just that, nebulous.
-
An enthusiastic desire of visiting the Old World haunted me from early childhood. I cherished a presentiment, amounting almost to belief, that I should one day behold the scenes, among which my fancy had so long wandered.
-
Life is like a B-movie. You don't want to leave in the middle of it but you don't want to see it again.
-
I have a control problem. I hate the feeling of not being in control.
-
I try to play my game and that's being emotional because I'm that kind of guy.
-
I think humor can be an effective way of getting the point across, but there are definitely times where I just write very earnestly.
-
I want you to take a sleeve of Thin Mints and line them up on the edge of the kitchen counter and when I'm hungry I can just bend over and sweep a cookie into my mouth like I'm scoring a goal in hockey.
-
Even if they try to kill you, you develop the inner conviction that there are some things so precious, some things so eternally true that they are worth dying for. And if a person has not found something to die for, that person isn't fit to live!
-
I had an agent who spent eight years - eight years! - trying to sell my stories. She sold other people's work; she just didn't sell mine.
-
It can become an exercise in trying to get the reader to like and admire you instead of an exercise in creative art.
