What did David Foster Wallace mean by: No one can call themselves a writer until he or she has written at least fifty stories. - David Foster Wallace Novelist · USA Copy
+ People, unless they’re paying attention, tend to confuse fanciness with intelligence or authority. Feraz Zeid, January 4, 2024January 7, 2024, David Foster Wallace, Attention, Pay Attention, 0 - David Foster Wallace Novelist · USA
+ You get to consciously decide what has meaning and what doesn’t. You get to decide what to worship. Feraz Zeid, January 4, 2024January 7, 2024, David Foster Wallace, Graduation, Worship, 0 - David Foster Wallace Novelist · USA
+ I am not what you see and hear. Feraz Zeid, September 1, 2023December 24, 2023, David Foster Wallace, God, 0 - David Foster Wallace Novelist · USA
+ If your fidelity to perfectionism is too high, you never do anything. Feraz Zeid, January 4, 2024January 7, 2024, David Foster Wallace, Fidelity, Motivational, Perfectionism, 0 - David Foster Wallace Novelist · USA
+ Entertainment provides relief. Art provokes engagement. Feraz Zeid, June 21, 2023December 12, 2023, David Foster Wallace, Art, Engagement, Relief, 0 - David Foster Wallace Novelist · USA
+ Ideally, each piece of art’s its own unique object, and its evaluation’s always present-tense. Feraz Zeid, January 4, 2024January 7, 2024, David Foster Wallace, Art, Evaluation, Unique, 0 - David Foster Wallace Novelist · USA
+ Acceptance is usually more a matter of fatigue than anything else. Feraz Zeid, January 4, 2024January 7, 2024, David Foster Wallace, Acceptance, Fatigue, 0 - David Foster Wallace Novelist · USA
+ If you’ve never wept and want to, have a child. Feraz Zeid, September 15, 2023December 24, 2023, David Foster Wallace, Children, 0 - David Foster Wallace Novelist · USA
Whatever may be our natural talents, the art of writing is not acquired all at once. Explain - Jean-Jacques Rousseau Philosopher · Switzerland
Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art. - William Ralph Inge Theologian and Anglican priest · England
One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
To express truth is to write naturally, forcibly, and delicately. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
It is the glory and merit of some men to write well and of others not to write at all. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
He who will not listen to any advice, nor be corrected in his writings, is a rank pedant. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France