Words&Dirt

“Probably the smart thing to say is, if you spend enough time reading or writing, you find a voice, but you also find certain tastes.  You find certain writers who when they write, it makes your own brain voice a tuning fork, and you just resonate with them.  And when that happens, reading those writers––not all of whom are modern…I mean, if you are willing to make allowances for the way English has changed, you can go way, way back with this––becomes a source of unbelievable joy.  It’s like eating candy for the soul.

And I sometimes have a hard time understanding how people who don’t have that in their lives make it through the day.”

––Quack This Way: David Foster Wallace & Bryan A. Garner Talk Language and Writing, by David Foster Wallace and Bryan A. Garner, pg. 61