The novel is the dream release, the suspension of reality that history needs to escape its own brutal confinements. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
There is a set of balances and rhythms to a novel that we can't experience in real life. So I think there… — 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 novel used to feed our search for meaning. Quoting Bill. It was the great secular transcendence. The Latin mass of language,… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
It's no accident that my first novel was called Americana. This was a private declaration of independence, a statement of my intention… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
A novel determines its own size and shape and I've never tried to stretch an idea beyond the frame and structure it… — 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
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
One of my earliest memories as a reader - I don't know how old I was, quite young - was a poem… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Making things difficult for the reader is less an attack on the reader than it is on the age and its facile… — 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
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
“When my head is in the typewriter the last thing on my mind is some imaginary reader. I don’t have an audience;… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“Remember literature, Charlie? It involved getting drunk and getting laid.” — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
A mystery novel localizes the awesome force of the real death outside the book, winds it tightly in a plot. — 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
“But then it came time for me to make my journey—into America. [... N]o coincidence that my first novel is called Americana… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“There's the life and there's the consumer event. Everything around us tends to channel our lives toward some final reality in print… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Somehow pictures always lead to people as masses. Books belong to individuals. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“There's the life and there's the consumer event. Everything around us tends to channel our lives toward some final reality in print… — 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 Image
Everything is barely weeks. Everything is days. We have minutes to live. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
The novel is the dream release, the suspension of reality that history needs to escape its own brutal confinements. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“As I listened I thought a featureless baggy man was striking me in slow motion with a well-polished stone.” — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
