What did David Foster Wallace mean by: The point of books is to combat loneliness. David Foster Wallace Novelist · USA Copy
I felt the sort of soaring, ceilingless tedium that transcends tedium and becomes worry. Author, January 4, 2024January 6, 2025, David Foster Wallace, Emotion, Tedium, Worry, 0 David Foster Wallace Novelist · USA
It did what all ads are supposed to do: create an anxiety relievable by purchase. Author, January 4, 2024January 6, 2025, David Foster Wallace, Advertising, Anxiety, Consumerism, 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
+ Author, July 31, 2023January 2, 2025, David Foster Wallace, Growth, Perspective, Resilience, 0 David Foster Wallace Novelist · USA
+ Author, October 3, 2023January 2, 2025, David Foster Wallace, Growth, Self-discovery, Struggle, 0 David Foster Wallace Novelist · USA
The interesting thing is why we’re so desperate for this anesthetic against loneliness. Author, January 4, 2024January 6, 2025, David Foster Wallace, Connection, Desperation, Isolation, 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, June 24, 2023January 2, 2025, David Foster Wallace, Duality, Perspective, Reflection, 0 David Foster Wallace Novelist · USA
