--- title: "15 Don Delillo Quotes by 13 authors" description: "Browse 15 Don Delillo quotes by 13 authors. Discover the best Don Delillo sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eab/ardal-o-hanlon-8746_book_i-read-one-of-the-funniest-books-last-we_1103892.jpg" --- > [I read one of the funniest books last week by Don DeLillo. He wrote this book, 'Amazons' many years ago, under the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ardal-o-hanlon/i-read-one-of-the-funniest-books-last-week-by-don-delillo-he-wrote/) [Ardal O'Hanlon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ardal-o-hanlon/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eab/ardal-o-hanlon-8746_book_i-read-one-of-the-funniest-books-last-we_1103892.jpg) > [There's always a host of voices you're inspired by. I love Don DeLillo, and I love Isaac Bashevis Singer, and I love…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dylan-moran/there-s-always-a-host-of-voices-you-re-inspired-by-i-love-don-delillo/) [Dylan Moran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dylan-moran/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f6f/dylan-moran-1716_beckett_there-s-always-a-host-of-voices-you-re-i_552834.jpg) > [“It is so much simpler to bury reality than it is to dispose of dreams. ― Don DeLillo, Americana (ACTES SUD; 0 edition, August 10, 1993)”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/don-delillo/it-is-so-much-simpler-to-bury-reality-than-it-is-to-dispose-of-dreams-2/) [Don DeLillo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/don-delillo/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/989/don-delillo-294_dream_it-is-so-much-simpler-to-bury-reality-th_1581962.jpg) > [I won't read a book that starts with a description of the weather. I don't read books over 300 pages, though I'll…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elmore-leonard/i-won-t-read-a-book-that-starts-with-a-description-of-the-weather-i/) [Elmore Leonard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elmore-leonard/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e25/elmore-leonard-3471_book_i-won-t-read-a-book-that-starts-with-a-d_1324604.jpg) > [A lot of the fiction I read growing up was post-war American, and not all of it centers on Manhattan, but around…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dylan-moran/a-lot-of-the-fiction-i-read-growing-up-was-post-war-american-and-not/) [Dylan Moran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dylan-moran/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a3c/dylan-moran-1716_fiction_a-lot-of-the-fiction-i-read-growing-up-w_1765102.jpg) > [Don DeLillo's 'White Noise,' which I read when I was 19. It showed me that a book can be funny as hell…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-barry/don-delillo-s-white-noise-which-i-read-when-i-was-19-it-showed-me/) [Kevin Barry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kevin-barry/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ad7/kevin-barry-15036_book_don-delillo-s-white-noise-which-i-read-w_2018347.png) > [“Albert Camus’s The Stranger, which he’d found revelatory at nineteen. An ancient copy of Don DeLillo’s Great Jones Street had been a”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-fitzsimmons/albert-camus-s-the-stranger-which-he-d-found-revelatory-at-nineteen/) [Matthew FitzSimmons](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-fitzsimmons/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b99/matthew-fitzsimmons-42560_don-delillo_albert-camus-s-the-stranger-which-he-d-f_2032590.jpg) > [“A conspiracy is everything that ordinary life is not. It’s the inside game, cold, sure, undistracted, forever closed off to us. We…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-grann/a-conspiracy-is-everything-that-ordinary-life-is-not-it-s-the-inside/) [David Grann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-grann/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4d9/david-grann-2569_life_a-conspiracy-is-everything-that-ordinary_886704.jpg) > [“Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/don-delillo/writing-is-a-form-of-personal-freedom-it-frees-us-from-the-mass-2/) [Don DeLillo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/don-delillo/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2c0/don-delillo-294_freedom_writing-is-a-form-of-personal-freedom-it_1929549.jpg) > [The reason some crime writers have a chip on their shoulder about the label is because their good books are shelved beside…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-pelecanos/the-reason-some-crime-writers-have-a-chip-on-their-shoulder-about-the/) [George Pelecanos](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-pelecanos/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/03c/george-pelecanos-3616_book_the-reason-some-crime-writers-have-a-chi_1564612.jpg) > [I guess of all those novels, Don DeLillo's Falling Man is the one I like the best. I thought there were some…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-auster/i-guess-of-all-those-novels-don-delillo-s-falling-man-is-the-one-i/) [Paul Auster](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-auster/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a73/paul-auster-351_beautiful_i-guess-of-all-those-novels-don-delillo_783456.jpg) > [ “\[José\] Saramago for the last 25 years stood his own with any novelist of the Western world \[..\] He was the equal… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harold-bloom/jos-saramago-for-the-last-25-years-stood-his-own-with-any-novelist-of/) [Harold Bloom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harold-bloom/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ad9/harold-bloom-3350_hard-to-believe_jos-saramago-for-the-last-25-years-stood_3080509.png) > [Most American writers don't get asked their opinion on current affairs, whereas in Europe and England, we still do. There are writers…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/most-american-writers-don-t-get-asked-their-opinion-on-current/) [Salman Rushdie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/salman-rushdie/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/557/salman-rushdie-153_affair_most-american-writers-don-t-get-asked-th_1400972.jpg) > [“Wallace’s philosophy in The Pale King (TPK 546) is that we can ride out waves of boredom and oblivion into bliss and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/greg-carlisle/wallace-s-philosophy-in-the-pale-king-tpk-546-is-that-we-can-ride-out/) [Greg Carlisle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/greg-carlisle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5f4/greg-carlisle-89278_don-delillo_wallace-s-philosophy-in-the-pale-king-tp_408930.jpg) > [“Why does the writer write? The writer writes to serve — hopelessly he writes in the hope that he might serve —…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joy-williams/why-does-the-writer-write-the-writer-writes-to-serve-hopelessly-he/) [Joy Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joy-williams/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cb5/joy-williams-12254_hope_why-does-the-writer-write-the-writer-wri_1896945.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/don-delillo/#itemlist", "name": "Don Delillo Quotes", "numberOfItems": 15, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I read one of the funniest books last week by Don DeLillo. He wrote this book, 'Amazons' many years ago, under the pseudonym Cleo Birdwell. 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