David Foster Wallace Quotes About Desire

Quotes about: Desire

• Most of the writers I know are weird hybrids. There's a strong streak of egomania coupled with extreme shyness. Writing's kind of like exhibitionism in private. And there's also a strange loneliness, and a desire to have some kind of conversation with people, but not a real great ability to do it in person.

  David Foster Wallace

  Strong, Real, Loneliness

• The point is that petty, frustrating crap like this is exactly where the work of choosing comes in. Because the traffic jams and crowded aisles and long checkout lines give me time to think, and if I don't make a conscious decision about how to think and what to pay attention to, I'm going to be pissed and miserable every time I have to food-shop, because my natural default-setting is the certainty that situations like this are really all about me, about my hungriness and my fatigue and my desire to just get home.

  David Foster Wallace

  Home, Thinking, Giving

  "'Plain Old Untrendy Troubles and Emotions'". www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2008.

• The desire for perfect release and the real-world impossibility of perfect, whenever-you-want-it release had together produced a tension they could no longer stand.

  David Foster Wallace

  Real, Perfect, Desire

  David Foster Wallace (2012). “Consider The Lobster: Essays and Arguments”, p.7, Hachette UK

• But if I decide to decide there’s a different, less selfish, less lonely point to my life, won’t the reason for this decision be my desire to be less lonely, meaning to suffer less overall pain? Can the decision to be less selfish ever be anything other than a selfish decision?

  David Foster Wallace

  Lonely, Pain, Selfish

  David Foster Wallace (2012). “Consider The Lobster: Essays and Arguments”, p.105, Hachette UK

• He didn't reject the idea so much as not react to it and watch as it floated away. He thought very broadly of desires and ideas being watched but not acted upon, he thought of impulses being starved of expression and dying out and floating dryly away.

  David Foster Wallace

  Expression, Ideas, Dying

  David Foster Wallace (2011). “Infinite Jest”, p.26, Hachette UK

• I often think I can see it in myself and in other young writers, this desperate desire to please coupled with a kind of hostility to the reader.

  David Foster Wallace

  Thinking, Desire, Young Writers

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