Author: Don DeLillo

Quotes

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.

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.

- 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.

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.

- 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.

Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there.

- Don DeLillo

I've always liked being relatively obscure. I feel that's where I belong, that's where my work belongs.

I've always liked being relatively obscure. I feel that's where I belong, that's where my work belongs.

- 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.

I quit my job just to quit. I didn't quit my job to write fiction. I just didn't want to work anymore.

- 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?

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?

- Don DeLillo

I think there is a sense of last things in my work that probably comes from a Catholic childhood.

I think there is a sense of last things in my work that probably comes from a Catholic childhood.

- 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.

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.

- Don DeLillo

In the face of technology, everything becomes a little atavistic.

In the face of technology, everything becomes a little atavistic.

- Don DeLillo

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