In the broadest possible sense, writing well means to communicate clearly and interestingly and in a way that feels alive to the reader. Where thereโs some kind of relationship between the writer and the reader - even though itโs mediated by a kind of text - thereโs an electricity about it.
David Foster WallaceAmerican experience seems to suggest that people are virtually unlimited in their need to give themselves away, on various levels. Some just prefer to do it in secret.
David Foster WallaceHear this or not, as you will. Learn it now, or later -- the world has time. Routine, repetition, tedium, monotony, ephemeracy, inconsequence, abstraction, disorder, boredom, angst, ennui -- these are the true hero's enemies, and make no mistake, they are fearsome indeed. For they are real.
David Foster WallaceMario, what do you get when you cross an insomniac, an unwilling agnostic and a dyslexic?
David Foster WallaceA novelist has to know enough about a subject to fool the passenger next to him on an airplane.
David Foster Wallace