Dystopian Author Quotes

David Foster Wallace Everything I’ve ever let go of has claw marks on it.

David Foster Wallace I do things like get in a taxi and say, “The library and step on it.”

David Foster Wallace Fiction, poetry, music…these are the places (for me) where loneliness is countenanced, stared down, transfigured, treated.

David Foster Wallace It is tragic and sad and chaotic and lovely. All life is the same, as citizens of the human State: the animating limits […]

David Foster Wallace I’m not afraid of new things. I’m just afraid of feeling alone even when there’s somebody else there. I’m afraid of feeling bad. […]

David Foster Wallace Mediocrity is contextual.

David Foster Wallace Try to learn to let what is unfair teach you.

David Foster Wallace It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience.

David Foster Wallace I don’t think writers are any smarter than other people. I think they may be more compelling in their stupidity, or in their […]