A novelist has to know enough about a subject to fool the passenger next to him on an airplane.
Weitere Zitate von David Foster Wallace
Zum Autor"She was terrified of everything, and terrified to show it."
"Your personal will is the web your disease sits and spins in. The will you call your own ceased to be yours as of who knows how many Substance-drenched years ago."
"[T]o really try to be informed and literate today is to feel stupid nearly all the time, and to need help."
"Like most North Americans of his generation, Hal tends to know way less about why he feels certain ways about the objects and pursuits he's devoted to than he does about the objects and pursuits themselves. It's hard to say for sure whether this is even exceptionally bad, this tendency."
"It's weird to feel like you miss someone you're not even sure you know."
"Be on guard. The road widens, and many of the detours are seductive."