I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
He thinks he's happy but it's just a nerve cell in his brain that's getting too much stimulation or too little stimulation. — 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
I used to think it was possible for an artist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb-makers and gunmen… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
People think about who they are in the stillest hour of the night. I carry this thought, the child's mystery and terror… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
I think my work is influenced by the fact that we're living in dangerous times. If I could put it in a… — 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 do think that in the near future, if it hasn't happened already, people will be able to use technology to design… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
There's a curious knot that binds novelists and terrorists...Years ago I used to think it was possible for a novelist to alter… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Look at those numbers running. Money makes time. It used to be the other way around. Clock time accelerated the rise of… — 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… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
The power of the dead is that we think they see us all the time. The dead have a presence. Is there… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
When I read obituaries I always note the age of the deceased. Automatically I relate this figure to my own age. Four… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
The best moments involve a loss of control. It's a kind of rapture, and it can happen with words and phrases fairly… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
You feel sorry for yourself. You think you're missing something and you don't know what it is. You're lonely inside your life.… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
I think it's only in a crisis that Americans see other people. It has to be an American crisis, of course. If… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“Writing is a concentrated form of thinking. I don’t know what I think about certain subjects, even today, until I sit down… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Brilliant people never think of the lives they smash, being brilliant. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
I don't consider myself paranoid at all. I think I see things exactly as they are. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
I think silence is the condition you accept as the judgment on your crimes. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Because friends have to be brutally honest with each other. I'd feel terrible if I didn't tell you what I was thinking,… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
I think that the massive, overarching, interconnected systems of technology tend to make us a little insecure, somewhat pliable, and susceptible to… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
I think a playwright realizes after he finishes working on the script that this is only the beginning. What will happen when… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
To portray America over the past twenty years or so, I would think immediately of football, probably the Super Bowl in its… — 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
Famous people don't want to be told that you have a quality in common with them. It makes them think there's something… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
I don't know what I think about certain subjects, even today, until I sit down and try to write about them. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
I think there is a sense of last things in my work that probably comes from a Catholic childhood. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
People in free societies don't have to fear the pathology of the state. We create our own frenzy, our own mass convulsions,… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
What did it mean, the first time, a thinking creature looked deeply into another's eyes? Did it take a hundred thousand years… — 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
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
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
We don't really know how technology will affect narrative. That's the question. See, people used to say that the novel is going… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
For me, wellbehaved books with neat plots and worked-out endings seem somewhat quaint in the face of the largely incoherent reality of… — 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
