Don DeLillo Quotes
A Catholic is raised with the idea that he will die any minute now and if he doesn't live his life in a certain way, this death is an introduction to an eternity of pain... view
By: Don DeLillo
I embarked on my life - I didn't do anything. I don't have an explanation... view
By: Don DeLillo
Hardship makes the world obscure... view
By: Don DeLillo
For me, writing is a concentrated form of thinking... view
By: Don DeLillo
Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there... view
By: Don DeLillo
Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom... view
By: Don DeLillo
America was and is the immigrant's dream... view
By: Don DeLillo
American writers ought to stand and live in the margins, and be more dangerous... view
By: Don DeLillo
It's no accident that my first novel was called Americana. This was a private declaration of independence, a statement of my intention to use the whole picture, the whole culture... view
By: Don DeLillo
In a repressive society, a writer can be deeply influential, but in a society that's filled with glut and repetition and endless consumption, the act of terror may be the only meaningful act... view
By: Don DeLillo
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... view
By: Don DeLillo
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?.. view
By: Don DeLillo
The language of my books has shaped me as a man... view
By: Don DeLillo
The future belongs to crowds... view
By: Don DeLillo
Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work... view
By: Don DeLillo
Rushdie is a hostage... view
By: Don DeLillo
People will always make comparisons... view
By: Don DeLillo
People who are powerless make an open theater of violence... view
By: Don DeLillo
People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power... view
By: Don DeLillo
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... view
By: Don DeLillo
Never underestimate the power of the State to act out its own massive fantasies... view
By: Don DeLillo
May the days be aimless. Do not advance action according to a plan... view
By: Don DeLillo
There's a connection between the advances that are made in technology and the sense of primitive fear people develop in response to it... view
By: Don DeLillo
In the face of technology, everything becomes a little atavistic... view
By: Don DeLillo
There's a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the writer's will to live... view
By: Don DeLillo
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... view
By: Don DeLillo
I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version... view
By: Don DeLillo
I've always seen myself in sentences. I begin to recognize myself, word by word, as I work through a sentence... view
By: Don DeLillo
I've always liked being relatively obscure. I feel that's where I belong, that's where my work belongs... view
By: Don DeLillo
I watch movies occasionally, and I watch documentaries. Virtually nothing else... view
By: Don DeLillo
I think there is a sense of last things in my work that probably comes from a Catholic childhood... view
By: Don DeLillo
I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism... view
By: Don DeLillo
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?.. view
By: Don DeLillo
I slept for four years. I didn't study much of anything. I majored in something called communication arts... view
By: Don DeLillo
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... view
By: Don DeLillo
I quit my job just to quit. I didn't quit my job to write fiction. I just didn't want to work anymore... view
By: Don DeLillo
I like the construction of sentences and the juxtaposition of words-not just how they sound or what they mean, but even what they look like... view
By: Don DeLillo
I felt Joyce was an influence on my fiction, but in a very general way, as a kind of inspiration and a model for the beauty of language... view
By: Don DeLillo
It occured to me that eating is the only form of professionalism most people ever attain... view
By: Don DeLillo
There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down... view
By: Don DeLillo
There's never a dearth of reasons to shoot at the President... view
By: Don DeLillo
True terror is a language and a vision. There is a deep narrative structure to terrorist acts, and they infiltrate and alter consciousness in ways that writers used to aspire to... view
By: Don DeLillo
Related authors
- mr-john
- Aaliyah
- Alvar Aalto
- Willie Aames
- Hank Aaron
- Mahmoud Abbas
- Cleveland Abbe
- Edward Abbey
- Lynn Abbey
- Berenice Abbott
- Bud Abbott
- Diane Abbott
- Grace Abbott
- Jack Henry Abbott
- Lyman Abbott
- Paula Abdul
- King Abdullah II
- Hasan Al Basri
- Lascelles Abercrombie
- John Abizaid
- Edmond About
- F. Murray Abraham
- Spencer Abraham
- Casey Abrams
- Floyd Abrams
- M. H. Abrams
- Victoria Abril
- Lucius Accius
- Marcel Achard
- Chinua Achebe