David Foster Wallace Quotes

I read hungrily and delightedly, and have realized since that you can’t write unless you read.

Ordinary people have big TVs. Extraordinary people have big libraries.

If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.

It's hard for me to believe that people who read very little (or not at all in some cases) should presume to write and expect people to like what they have written.

You'll enjoy it. There is much you can learn from books and scrolls," said Jeod. He gestured at the walls. "These books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life." "It sounds intriguing," admitted Eragon. "Always the scholar, aren't you?" asked Brom. Jeod shrugged. "Not anymore. I'm afraid I've degenerated into a bibliophile.

Even the worst book can give us something to think about.

A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.

People who don't read seem to me mysterious. I don't know how they think or learn about other people. Novels are a very important part of our education.

The true university of these days is a collection of books.

You learn to write by reading, and my experiences and tastes as a reader are pretty wide.

These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.

My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

My attention is constantly being caught! I'm constantly learning, constantly becoming fascinated by new things - I'm lucky that I read incredibly quickly and absorb a lot of information easily, because otherwise I don't think I'd ever get my head out of a book!

Cherish the interests of literature and the sciences, and all seminaries of them.

Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

I would always read a lot.

Tupac loved to read! Books were a constant part of his life.

Read good, big important things.

Books are the curse of the human race.

You’re probably wasting time on things like eating and sleeping. Cease that, and read all of philosophy and all of literature. Also art. Plus politics and a few other things. The history of everything.

I think of reading as like a medicine cabinet.

Love of books is the best of all.

What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?

The more you read, the more you realize there are fascinating books to be read and so little time to do so.