Don DeLillo Quotes
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People will always make comparisons.
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Never underestimate the power of the State to act out its own massive fantasies.
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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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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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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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I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version.
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I'm a novelist, period. An American novelist.
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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 think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.
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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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Rushdie is a hostage.
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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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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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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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Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.
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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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Writers in repressive societies are considered dangerous. That's why so many of them are in jail.
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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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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 embarked on my life - I didn't do anything. I don't have an explanation.