Don DeLillo Quotes
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I saw a photograph of a wedding conducted by Reverend Moon of the Unification Church. I wanted to understand this event, and the only way to understand it was to write about it.
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America was and is the immigrant's dream.
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People will always make comparisons.
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War is the ultimate realization of modern technology.
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There's a connection between the advances that are made in technology and the sense of primitive fear people develop in response to it.
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I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version.
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Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there.
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I think fiction comes from everything you've ever done, and said, and dreamed, and imagined. It comes from everything you've read and haven't read...I think my work comes out of the culture of the world around me. I think that's where my language comes from.
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I slept for four years. I didn't study much of anything. I majored in something called communication arts.
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There's a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the writer's will to live.
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One truth is the swing of the sentence, the beat and poise, but down deeper it's the integrity of the writer as he matches with the language.
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I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.
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There's never a dearth of reasons to shoot at the President.
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I'm a novelist, period. An American novelist.
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When you try to unravel something you've written, you belittle it in a way. It was created as a mystery.
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Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.
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Men with secrets tend to be drawn to each other, not because they want to share what they know but because they need the company of the like-minded, the fellow afflicted.
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The modern meaning of life's end-when does it end? How does it end? How should it end? What is the value of life? How do we measure it?
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People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power.
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I think there is a sense of last things in my work that probably comes from a Catholic childhood.
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The language of my books has shaped me as a man.
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If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature. Lovely.
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Writers in repressive societies are considered dangerous. That's why so many of them are in jail.
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'Remember literature, Charlie? It involved getting drunk and getting laid.'