Dystopian Author Quotes

Koushun Takami Loving someone always requires you to not love others.

David Foster Wallace No one can call themselves a writer until he or she has written at least fifty stories.

David Foster Wallace You have a great deal of yourself on the line, writing- your vanity is at stake. You discover a tricky thing about fiction […]

David Foster Wallace Some words have to be explicitly uttered, Lenore. Only by actually uttering certain words does one really DO what one SAYS. ‘Love’ is […]

David Foster Wallace Of course, the fact that Dostoevsky can tell a juicy story isn’t enough to make him great. If it were, Judith Krantz and […]

David Foster Wallace God, what a ghastly enterprise to be in, though-and what an odd way to achieve success. I’m an exhibitionist who wants to hide, […]

David Foster Wallace One paradox of professional writing is that books written solely for money and/or acclaim will almost never be good enough to garner either.

David Foster Wallace We will, of course, without hesitation use art to parody, ridicule, debunk, or criticize ideologies.

David Foster Wallace Like so many other nerdy, disaffected young people of that time, I dreamed of becoming an ‘artist’, i.e., somebody whose adult job was […]