Author: Don DeLillo

Quotes

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

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.

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.

- 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.

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

I embarked on my life - I didn't do anything. I don't have an explanation.

I embarked on my life - I didn't do anything. I don't have an explanation.

- 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 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've always seen myself in sentences. I begin to recognize myself, word by word, as I work through a sentence.

I've always seen myself in sentences. I begin to recognize myself, word by word, as I work through a sentence.

- Don DeLillo

I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.

I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.

- 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.

There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.

- Don DeLillo

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