Don DeLillo Quotes
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People will always make comparisons.
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'There's a curious knot that binds novelists and terrorists...Years ago I used to think it was possible for a novelist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb-makers and gunmen have taken that territory. They make raids on human consciousness. What writers used to do before we were all incorporated.'
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America was and is the immigrant's dream.
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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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I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version.
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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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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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There's never a dearth of reasons to shoot at the President.
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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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I slept for four years. I didn't study much of anything. I majored in something called communication arts.
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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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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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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'm a novelist, period. An American novelist.
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Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.
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Rushdie is a hostage.
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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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Writers in repressive societies are considered dangerous. That's why so many of them are in jail.
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There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.
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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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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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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.