Review of Contemporary Fiction , Summer 1993, Vol. 13.2]
David Foster Wallace
Related This is too much reality for a Friday. AS GOOD AS IT GETS HIROMU ARAKAWA DAVID FOSTER WALLACE PATRICK NESS DAVID FOSTER WALLACE DAVID FOSTER WALLACE I read secular fiction, but also enjoy novels with a Christian worldview. RANDY ALCORN A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung... PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE Writers such as Richard Powers and the late David Foster Wallace have shown the path to a newer gene... GILES FODEN A woman in a corset is a lie, a falsehood, a fiction, but for us, this fictionEUGENE CHAPUS Only fools wait, and only tools bait. CRE There are approximately two trillion cells in the human body. You are never alone, there are always ... DWIGHT W. HAYES ROBERT FROST SUE MONK KIDD PANKAJ MISHRA KATHERINE PATERSON Now, Venus is an extremely hostile environment, and as such presents a lot of challenges for a scien... SARAH ZETTEL How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS CASSANDRA CLARE JEAN M. AUEL Fiction has been maligned for centuries as being "false," "untrue," yet good fiction provides more t... CLARK ZLOTCHEW ALAN BENNETT EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY LAO TZU In order to create you have to believe in your ability to do so and that often means excluding whole... T.C. BOYLE I remember being a kid and reading all the dog books I could come across, both fiction and nonfictio... GAIL TORACINTA Take a trip in my mindEDWARD HUMES A: The soul wanders in the dark, until it finds love. And so, wherever our love goes, there we find ... MARY ZIMMERMAN LISA KLEYPAS ROBERT FROST good ,' to beha... ORSON SCOTT CARD CHAIM POTOK WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional ... IRA GLASS VICTORIA AVEYARD Some would say it is madness to want a woman this way,BETTIE SHARPE CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY JOHN UPDIKE ALAN ARKIN DEYTH BANGER JEAN BAUDRILLARD ARTHUR MILLER I love writing both fiction and memoir. Both have unique challenges; bottom line, fiction is hard be... LISA SCOTTOLINE All nonmimetic fiction is a balancing act between 'reality' and the obviously unreal, with n... NANCY KRESS TERRY PRATCHETT RAINER MARIA RILKE I’d rather be a heart,HKL WALLACE STEGNER I live for sex. FIONA THRUST A lot of teenagers write to me and say "I want to write a book. I want to get published." And those ... MAUREEN JOHNSON DAVID MITCHELL JUNOT DIAZ The four stages of acceptance:J.B.S. HALDANE ROBIN HOBB JOHN GREEN ALFONSO CUARON If I could sum up my poetry in a few well-chosen words, the result might be a poem. Several years ag... ANTHONY THWAITE ALBERT SCHWEITZER ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING as architect of choosing...LASHAUN MIDDLEBROOKS COLLIER SUSAN BETH PFEFFER GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Fiction seeks to represent human experience as it is lived and as it reverberates in our hopes, fear... VARLEY O'CONNOR I'm ashamed and embarrassed to say that I've read very little of David Foster Wallace's ... BEN FOUNTAIN HAROLD BLOOM We do a hard fantasy as well as hard science fiction, and I think I probably single-handedly recreat... JERRY POURNELLE Something that seemed to be a real trend this summer was the disproportionate strength of non-fictio... BOB REED E.E. CUMMINGS MAGGIE STIEFVATER I pick up the list of Benji's five favorite books because we've got work to do:CAROLINE KEPNES In Cloud computing the difference between a dark cloud and a cloud with a silver lining, is the part... RAJAT MOHAN His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha... TEKOA MANNING MARK TWAIN PABLO NERUDA I remember the embarrassment I felt when Lie With Me came out over ten years ago. There was no good ... TAMARA FAITH BERGER CHRIS EVANS NEIL GAIMAN Much, much later. when I am back home and being treated for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). I... JAKE WOOD ALLAN GURGANUS RICHARD BEAUVAIS GEORGE GORDON BYRON DAVID FOSTER WALLACE STEVEN PINKER CHRISTINA ENGELA Steadfast Seas and MountainsREIKO CHIBA Change the world, I know I won’t,ANURAG ANAND Words ANNE SEXTON There are, in fact,MARIETA MAGLAS- ESCHATOLOGICAL REGRESSION ANON. ORSON SCOTT CARD Review of my book Hope's Motel by Jacob Airey of LonestarInspirations. Men are enjoying it as much a... JACOB AIREY HARUKI MURAKAMI I have a longing for fiction - to try to believe in it and to disappear into it. KARL OVE KNAUSGARD STEPHEN SONDHEIM MARY OLIVER I like to find old thingsLI HE I have spent so many nights out under the starsMORRIS R. GATES How would it be,” said Pooh slowly, “if, as soon as we’re out of sight of this Pit, we try to ... MILNE, A. A. You look at science fiction and look how often it talks about being alien, being alienated about the... NALO HOPKINSON Summer: 'Yeah, got 10 bucks.'OC
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Truth is stranger than fiction," as the old saying goes. When I watch a documentary, I can't help cr... 
If what's always distinguished bad writing--flat characters, a narrative world that's clichéd and n... 
I like writers who seem to write because they have to. You get the feeling of this burning desire to... 
It’s got something to do with love. With having the discipline to talk out of the part of yourself... 
The reality is that dying isn’t bad, but it takes forever. And that forever is no time at all. I k... 
The Road Not Taken
I have a fondness for historical fiction, something wondrous like 'Wolf Hall,' but I'll ... 
Basically, I think of fiction and non-fiction as different ways of engaging with the world. You reac... 
Thus, in a real sense, I am constantly writing autobiography,
I love you so much, so incredibly much," he went on, "and I forget when you're close to me, I forget... 
I could write historical fiction, or science fiction, or a mystery but since I find it fascinating t... 
A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a l... 
Well, I have lost you; and I lost you fairly;
Do you want to improve the world?
I want to know what your five-dollar wish was for.”
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good,' to beha... 
A non-fiction writer pretty much has the shape of the figure in front of him or her and goes about r... 
If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction. 
There are pieces of me, small pieces, still in love with a fiction. A ghost living inside a living b... 
Fiction, for me, is sort of a protracted way of saying all the things I wished I said the night befo... 
I didn't need to write historical epics, no, or science fiction, though I read a lot of science ... 
NI love watching science fiction because I feel like when it's done well, it's not just mons... 
Oh... I just leave it...
What you have to do is enter the fiction of America, enter America as fiction. It is, indeed, on thi... 
It is a lie. 
I'll never be like this again . . . I'll never again feel as tall as the sky and as old as the hills... 
I love the dark hours of my being.
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Scholars discern motions in history & formulate these motions into rules that govern the rises &... 
There is a lot of scepticism today as to whether memoir is real. But when fiction is done at a certa... 
Writing and reading fiction is, I think, a human effort to make sense of the world. 
According to the conventions of the genre, Augustus Waters kept his sense of humor till the end, did... 
It's not really science-fiction, ... It's the world 30 years from 
By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive.
My letters! all dead paper, mute and white!
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History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will... 
Stephen King is Cervantes compared with David Foster Wallace. We have no standards left. 
Love is a place 
I fell for her in summer, my lovely summer girl,
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Trut... 
If we were not so single-minded
We come into this world alone. You’re going to die alone. That’s the way it is.
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To shy away from human extremes and human sensuality makes for bone-dry fiction. A world parched of ... 
I am here because there is no refuge,
Tis strange,-but true; for truth is always strange;
I have never been a fan of science fiction. For me, fiction has to explore the combinatorial possibi... 
Beaming into the thick of a tree without becoming a lifelong tree hugger was a tricky business. A pr... 
Words
I think of you often
There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good,' to behave in a... 
Your readers have seen a sky with one moon in it any number of times, right? But I doubt they've see... 
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit
Pretty Song"