Lipsky Quotes

#1. David Foster Wallace: Because I'd like to be the sort of person who can enjoy things at the time instead of having to go back in my head and enjoy them then.

David Lipsky

#2. Your integrity may disgrace your pride at the time you don't think but that doesnt mean you should stop. You'll have to accept and move on with your life in the way it is.

Auliq Ice

#3. Because we're gonna get so interested in entertainment that we're not gonna want to do the work that generates the income that buys the products that pays for the advertising that disseminates the entertainment.

David Lipsky

#4. I think the reason why people behave in an ugly manner is that it's really scary to be alive and to be human, and people are really really afraid.

David Lipsky

#5. It's just much easier with dogs. You don't get laid; but you also don't get the feeling you're hurting their feelings all the time.

David Lipsky

#6. One of the things that writing and speech can do is express what we're thinking one thought at a time.

David Lipsky

#7. Talk less about the years to come,
Live, love labor more today.

Christian Nestell Bovee

#8. The way to finish the book is to turn down the volume on the stuff that's all about how other people react.

David Lipsky

#9. David (David Foster Wallace) had a caffeine social gift: Her was charmingly, vividly, overwhelmingly awake - he acted on other people like a slug of coffee - so they're the five most sleepless days I every spent with anyone.

David Lipsky

#10. I'm talking about the number of privileged, highly intelligent, motivated career-track people that I know, from my high school or college, who are, if you look into their eyes, empty and miserable.

David Lipsky

#11. My ambition is to not embarrass myself
which, if you know me, is a pretty serious ambition.

David Lipsky

#12. The fucking nerve of these people! Luccio deserved to die. He was going to kill me, so it was either him or me. When it comes down to a bullet, I will always choose to put one in the other person.

J.L. Beck

#13. I know people who are medicated and it's their favorite subject.

David Lipsky

#14. David thought books existed to stop you from feeling lonely.

David Lipsky

#15. Entertainment's chief job is to make you so riveted by it that you can't tear your eyes away, so the advertisers can advertise.

David Lipsky

#16. I'm not sure we're any better, but able to describe the attempt to track our wandering in circles in a way that perhaps somebody else can identify with. I don't think writers are any smarter than other people. I think they may be more compelling in their stupidity, or in their confusion.

David Lipsky

#17. He had finished and collected the three years of drafts [of Infinite Jest], and finally sat down and typed the whole thing. Wallace didn't really type; he input the giant thing twice, with one finger. But a really fast finger.

David Lipsky

#18. David Foster Wallace: There's so much beauty and profundity in all kinds of shitty pop culture all around us.

David Lipsky

#19. The sinful nature of man is the same in every generation. Man naturally moves towards entropy. We are driven towards the carnal, mundane and the mediocre. We need a higher power, force and truth to deliver us from this entropic movement to self-destruction and pull us higher to greater values.

Sunday Adelaja

#20. The point of books was to combat loneliness

David Lipsky

#21. I finished and e-mailed to myself to see what it'd read like to open, and decided it looked a little loopy and that I'd been the right person to open it after all. I read him, thought about him, and I never saw him again except on television once.

David Lipsky

#22. I don't believe in journalists having 'responsibility.'

Seth Lipsky

#23. He [David Foster Wallace] compares raising children to raising books, you should take pride in the work you do inside a family and not from how they make out in the world. "It's good to want a child to do well, but it's bad to want that glory to reflect back on you," is what he says.

David Lipsky

#24. [We do some TV talk. He loves Seinfeld, thinks Friends is a little gooey.

David Lipsky

#25. And I think that the ultimate way you and I get lucky is if you have some success early in life, you get to find out early it doesn't mean anything. Which means you get to start early the work of figuring out what does mean something
David Foster Wallace

David Lipsky

#26. David Foster Wallace: I always fear that when I really impose my will on something, the universe is gonna punish me.

David Lipsky

#27. I grew up in the suburbs north of Atlanta. I had an amazing childhood, and I still go back to my home in Atlanta often.

Devon Werkheiser

#28. Hemingway changed prose; so did Salinger and Nabokov.

David Lipsky

#29. David Foster Wallace: We sit around and bitch about how TV has ruined the audience for reading - when really all it's done is given us the really precious gift of making our job harder.

David Lipsky

#30. But one of them has to do with the sense of, the sense of capturing, capturing what the world feels like to us, in the sort of way that I think that a reader can tell Another sensibility like mine exists.

David Lipsky

#31. Central bankers are not seers, not miracle workers. They are government employees.

Seth Lipsky

#32. But the sort of - this confusion of permissions, or this idea that pleasure and comfort are the, are really the ultimate goal and meaning of life. I think we're starting to see a generation die ... on the toxicity of that idea.

David Lipsky