Reads tagged with “David Foster Wallace”

David Foster Wallace on Why You Should Use a Dictionary, How to Write a Great Opener, and the Measure of Good Writing
“Really good writing [is] able to get across massive amounts of information and various favorable impressions of the communicator with minimal effort on the part of the reader.”

David Foster Wallace on the Redemptive Power of Reading and the Future of Writing in the Age of Information
The fun of reading as “an exchange between consciousnesses, a way for human beings to talk to each other about stuff we can’t normally talk about.”

David Foster Wallace on Writing, Self-Improvement, and How We Become Who We Are
“Good writing isn’t a science. It’s an art, and the horizon is infinite. You can always get better.”

David Foster Wallace on Writing, Death, and Redemption
“You don’t have to think very hard to realize that our dread of both relationships and loneliness … has to do with angst about death, the recognition that I’m going to die, and die very much alone, and the rest of the world is going to go merrily on without me.”

David Foster Wallace on Ambition, Animated
“If your fidelity to perfectionism is too high, you never do anything.”

Reinventing the Secular Sermon: Remarkable Commencement Addresses by Nora Ephron, David Foster Wallace, Ira Glass, and More
How to live life “on fire with the same force that made the stars: love, fellowship, the mystical oneness of all things deep down.”

O Captain! My Captain! David Foster Wallace, Robin Williams, Walt Whitman, and the Unholy Ghost of Suicide
“My Captain does not answer … he has no pulse nor will.”

David Foster Wallace on Leadership, Illustrated and Read by Debbie Millman
“A leader’s real ‘authority’ is a power you voluntarily give him, and you grant him this authority not with resentment or resignation but happily.”

David Foster Wallace’s Timeless Graduation Speech on the Meaning of Life, Adapted in a Short Film
“The real value of a real education … has almost nothing to do with knowledge and everything to do with simple awareness.”

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