Writers in repressive societies are considered dangerous. That's why so many of them are in jail. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“Only writing could soak up his loneliness and pain. Written words could tell him who he was.” — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It's true that some of us become better writers by living long enough. But this is also how we become worse writers.… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Writers, some of us, may tend to see things before other people do, things that are right there but aren't noticed in… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
There's a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the writer's will to live. — 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
There are two categories of writers, it could be said: The author who is just a voice, and the one who is… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
It's my contention that each book creates its own structure and its own length. I've written three or four slim books. It… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
In a repressive society, a writer can be deeply influential, but in a society that's filled with glut and repetition and endless… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
I am not particularly distressed by the state of fiction or the role of the writer. The more marginal, perhaps ultimately the… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins,… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
I'm very concerned with questions of language. This is what I think of when I think of myself as a writer: I'm… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“Everybody knows the thing about an infinite number of monkeys," Fenig said. "An infinite number of monkeys is put to work at… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
In my experience, writing a novel tends to create its own structure, its own demands, its own language, its own ending. So… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“He could have told George a writer creates a character as a way to reveal consciousness, increase the flow of meaning. This… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“He looked at a picture on the wall and saw everything that existed outside the room he was sitting in and the… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“It is the form that allows a writer the greatest opportunity to explore human experience...For that reason, reading a novel is potentially… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“Within sixty-minute limits or one-hundred-yard limits or the limits of a game board, we can look for perfect moments or perfect structures.… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
That's how you write novels actually. You suddenly hit upon something and you realize this is the path you were meant to… — 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
