What did David Foster Wallace mean by: Mediocrity is contextual. David Foster Wallace Novelist · USA Copy
Whatever you get paid attention for is never what you think is most important about yourself. Author, January 4, 2024January 6, 2025, David Foster Wallace, Perception, Recognition, Self-worth, 0 David Foster Wallace Novelist · USA
Talent is its own expectation, Jim: you either live up to it or it waves a hankie, receding forever. Author, January 4, 2024January 6, 2025, David Foster Wallace, Expectation, Success, Talent, 0 David Foster Wallace Novelist · USA
People, unless they’re paying attention, tend to confuse fanciness with intelligence or authority. Author, January 4, 2024January 6, 2025, David Foster Wallace, Authority, Intelligence, Perception, 0 David Foster Wallace Novelist · USA
The other half is to dramatize the fact that we still “are” human beings, now. Or can be. Author, January 4, 2024January 6, 2025, David Foster Wallace, Existence, Humanity, Potential, 0 David Foster Wallace Novelist · USA
I just think that fiction that isn’t exploring what it means to be human today isn’t art. Author, January 4, 2024January 6, 2025, David Foster Wallace, Art, Exploration, Humanity, 0 David Foster Wallace Novelist · USA
Ideally, each piece of art’s its own unique object, and its evaluation’s always present-tense. Author, January 4, 2024January 6, 2025, David Foster Wallace, Evaluation, Uniqueness, 0 David Foster Wallace Novelist · USA
No one can call themselves a writer until he or she has written at least fifty stories. Author, January 4, 2024January 6, 2025, David Foster Wallace, Experience, Qualification, Writing, 0 David Foster Wallace Novelist · USA
+ Author, September 1, 2023January 2, 2025, David Foster Wallace, Deception, Identity, Perception, 0 David Foster Wallace Novelist · USA
