904 Quotes by David Foster Wallace

We're not keen on the idea of the story sharing its valence with the reader. But the reader's own life 'outside' the story changes the story.

It looks like you can write a minimalist piece without much bleeding. And you can. But not a good one.

Think of the old cliché about the mind being 'an excellent servant but a terrible master'. This, like many clichés, so lame & banal on the surface, actually expresses a great & terrible truth.

Logical validity is not a guarantee of truth.