Author: Don DeLillo

Quotes

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

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

- 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

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

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

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

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

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

I watch movies occasionally, and I watch documentaries. Virtually nothing else.

I watch movies occasionally, and I watch documentaries. Virtually nothing else.

- 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

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