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>David Foster Wallace
“I usually go in shifts of three or four hours with either naps or, like, you know, fairly diverting do-something-with-other-people things in the middle,” Wallace said in 1996, shortly after the publication of Infinite Jest. “So, like, I’ll get up at eleven or noon, work till two or three.” In later interviews, however, Wallace said that he followed a regular writing routine only when the work was going badly. From a 1999 radio interview:
>Things are either going well or they’re not going well.… I’m working on something now and I just can’t seem to get it. I flounder and I flounder. And when I’m floundering I don’t want to work, so I invent draconian “All right, this morning I’ll work from seven-thirty to eight-forty-five with one five-minute break”—all this baroque b.s. And after five or ten or a dozen or, you know, as with some books, fifty tries, all of a sudden it will just, it will start to go. And once it starts to go, it requires no effort. And then actually the discipline’s required in terms of being willing to be away from it and to remember that, “Oh, I have a relationship that I have to nurture or I have to grocery shop or pay these bills” and stuff. So I have absolutely no routine at all, because the times I’m trying to build a routine are the times that the writing just seems futile and flagellating.

>>15341975

This thread isnt about anything at all. Its just that i like to see this guy in the catalog.

>>7532966
How does it feel to be living the meme?

Except for B.E.E. and Harold Bloom, which other critics and writers hated him?
Did anyone speak ill of his attempts at 'journalism'?

soooo liking pynchon is cool but liking DFW isn't...
but they're kinda the same. they both write complex novels with strong themes that, at least in my mind, can seem really jarring beside moments of their "humor" that to me suggest they maybe should've just taken a step back and burned off their autism a bit.
Basically, they were both huge dorks. If you dont see that then im sorry youre one of "those" guys.

theres a reason theses guys relied on their editors.

and lol at this photo