Don DeLillo Quotes
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The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence.
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I think a playwright realizes after he finishes working on the script that this is only the beginning. What will happen when it moves into three dimensions?
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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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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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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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I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.
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Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.
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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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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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There's never a dearth of reasons to shoot at the President.
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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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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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People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power.
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Rushdie is a hostage.
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Hardship makes the world obscure.
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I embarked on my life - I didn't do anything. I don't have an explanation.
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Terror makes the new future possible. All men one man, Men live in history as never before. He is saying we make an change history minute by minute. History is not the book or the human memory. We do history in the morning and change it after lunch.
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'Remember literature, Charlie? It involved getting drunk and getting laid.'
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I think there is a sense of last things in my work that probably comes from a Catholic childhood.