Stories are consoling, fiction is one of the consolation prizes for having lived in the world. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
He wanted paper and something to write with, some way to sustain a thought, to place it in the world. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
That's the world out there, little green apples and infectious disease. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
The world isn't going to be destroyed, but you don't feel safe anymore in your plane or train or office or auditorium. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
In our world we sleep and eat the image and pray to it and wear it too. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
I think if you maintain a force in the world that comes into people's sleep, you are exercising a meaningful power. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
The world is full of abandoned meanings. In the commonplace I find unexpected themes and intensities. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
World is supposed to mean something that's self-contained. but nothing is self-contained. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
And what's the point of waking up in the morning if you don't try to match the enormousness of the known forces… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“If the world is where we hide from ourselves, what do we do when the world is no longer accessible? We invent… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
For most people, there are only two places in the world. Where they live and their TV set. If a thing happens… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Terror is now the world narrative, unquestionably. When those two buildings were struck, and when they collapsed, it was, in effect, an… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
When I work, I'm just translating the world around me in what seems to be straightforward terms. For my readers, this is… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
The world is shrinking into a kind of technological funnel. I think people are drawn into their technological devices, and this becomes… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
He took pains to avoid self-depreciation, self-mockery, ambiguity, irony, subtlety, vulnerability, a civilized world-weariness and a tragic sense of history--the very things,… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Naturally a direct comparison of terrorist and novelist is complete nonsense. But there was once a time when the novelist also had… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
First you look for discipline and control. You want to exercise your will, bend the language your way, bend the world your… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Time seems to pass. The world happens, unrolling into moments, and you stop to glance at a spider pressed to its web.… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Writing is a concentrated form of thinking...a young writer sees that with words he can place himself more clearly into the world.… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
The difference between the world of pictures and the world of printed matter is extraordinary and hard to define. A picture is… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
I never wanted to change the world. Norman Mailer wanted to, he set himself the task of changing the consciousness of our… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
I am ashamed every day, and more ashamed the next. But I will spend the rest of my life in this living… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
America is the world's living myth. There's no sense of wrong when you kill an American or blame America for some local… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Air travel reminds us who we are. It's the means by which we recognize ourselves as modern. The process removes us from… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
To plot is to live. […] We start out lives in chaos, in babble. As we surge up into the world, we… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
There is a balance, a kind of standoff between the time continuum and the human entity, our frail bundle of soma and… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Music is dangerous in so many ways. It's the most dangerous thing in the world. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
I think literature has lost it's power. Great novels continue to be written, but they are no longer changing the world. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
I think fiction comes from everything you've ever done, and said, and dreamed, and imagined. It comes from everything you've read and… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
As belief shrinks from the world, it is more necessary than ever that someone believe. Wild-eyed men in caves. Nuns in black.… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Film is more than the twentieth-century art. It's another part of the twentieth-century mind. It's the world seen from inside. We've come… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“We all know how the thing we secretly fear is not a secret at all but the open and eternal thing that predicts its… — Don DeLillo Copy Share
The novel is the dream release, the suspension of reality that history needs to escape its own brutal confinements. — Don DeLillo Copy Share
“As I listened I thought a featureless baggy man was striking me in slow motion with a well-polished stone.” — Don DeLillo Copy Share
“Murray said, 'I don't trust anybody's nostalgia but my own. Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. It´s a settling of grievances between… — Don DeLillo Copy Share
“She is beginning to think it is possible that all creation is a spurt of blank matter that chances to make an emerald planet… — Don DeLillo Copy Share
“Those who have abandoned belief must still believe in us. They are sure that they are right not to believe but they know belief… — Don DeLillo Copy Share
“The plane had lost power in all three engines, dropped from thirty-four thousand feet to twelve thousand feet. Something like four miles. When the… — Don DeLillo Copy Share
“Grass: I live in a great steel tower that reflects the blazing sun. People catch fire just walking by. The more bodies that pile… — Don DeLillo Copy Share
“Marriage is something we make from available materials. In this sense it’s improvised, it’s almost offhand. Maybe this is why we know so little… — Don DeLillo Copy Share
The true life is not reducible to words spoken or written, not by anyone, ever. The true life takes place when we're alone, thinking,… — Don DeLillo Copy Share
I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version. — Don DeLillo Copy Share
There is a set of balances and rhythms to a novel that we can't experience in real life. So I think there is a… — Don DeLillo Copy Share
![“To plot is to live. […] We start out lives in chaos, in babble. As we surge up into the world, we try to devise a shape, a plan. There is dignity in this. Your whole life is a plot, a scheme, a diagram. It is a failed scheme but that's not the point. To plot is to affirm life, to seek shape and…” quote by Don DeLillo](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/8f8/don-delillo-294_after-death_to-plot-is-to-live-we-start-out-lives-in_1610967.jpg)
