“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.”
Quote by David Foster Wallace
Author
You May Also Like
“The germ of a story is a new and simple element introduced into an existing situation or mood.”
Source: And I worked at the writer's trade: chapters of literary history, 1918-1978
“Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish.”
Source: Steinbeck: A Life in Letters
“You have to simply love writing, and you have to remind yourself often that you love it.”
“Nothing any good isn't hard.”
Source: A Life in Letters
“Only a person who is congenially self-centered has the effrontery and the stamina to write essays”
“Writing is not an exercise in excision, it's a journey into sound.”
Source: Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage
“Coming back is the thing that enables you to see how all the dots in your life are connected.”
Source: What Now?
