David Foster Wallace On Ambition

Blank on Blank shares David Foster Wallace's thoughts on perfectionism, ambition, and how he became such a prolific writer of our day.

January 30, 2017 by Blank on Blank Leave a Comment

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“If your fidelity to perfectionism is too high, you never do anything.” – David Foster Wallace

Interview by Leonard Lopate, WNYC
March 4, 1996

Interview originally aired on the Leonard Lopate Show

Executive Producer: David Gerlach
Animator: Patrick Smith

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Blank on Blank is a production of Quoted Studios, a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit based in Brooklyn, NY. We transform journalists' unheard Vintage tapes of their interviews with cultural icons and add New animations. The future of journalism is remixing the past.

Executive Producer David Gerlach
Animator & Director Patrick Smith
Audio Producer Amy Drozdowska

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