Author: Don DeLillo

Quotes

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 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

I slept for four years. I didn't study much of anything. I majored in something called communication arts.

I slept for four years. I didn't study much of anything. I majored in something called communication arts.

- 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

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'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

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

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.

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.

- Don DeLillo

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