The problem is that once the rules of art are debunked, and once the unpleasant realities the irony diagnoses are revealed and diagnosed, ‘then’ what do we do? David Foster Wallace Read Quote
It looks like you can write a minimalist piece without much bleeding. And you can. But not a good one. David Foster Wallace Read Quote
I just think that fiction that isn’t exploring what it means to be human today isn’t art. David Foster Wallace Read Quote
This is so American, man: either make something your God and cosmos and then worship it, or else kill it. David Foster Wallace Read Quote
It seems important to find ways of reminding ourselves that most ‘familiarity’ is meditated and delusive. David Foster Wallace Read Quote
This diagnosis can be done in about two lines. It doesn’t engage anybody. David Foster Wallace Read Quote
I often think I can see it in myself and in other young writers, this desperate desire to please coupled with a kind of hostility to the reader. David Foster Wallace Read Quote
I think TV promulgates the idea that good art is just art which makes people like and depend on the vehicle that brings them the art. David Foster Wallace Read Quote
Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies, upped the stakes. David Foster Wallace Read Quote
