Thinking Quotes by Don DeLillo

Writing is a concentrated form of thinking.

— Don DeLillo

Brilliant people never think of the lives they smash, being brilliant.

— Don DeLillo

People think about who they are in the stillest hour of the night.

— Don DeLillo

For me, writing is a concentrated form of thinking.

— Don DeLillo

I think silence is the condition you accept as the judgment on your crimes.

— Don DeLillo

I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version.

— Don DeLillo

I don't consider myself paranoid at all. I think I see things exactly as they are.

— Don DeLillo

I think fiction recues history from its confusions.

— Don DeLillo

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

I think if you maintain a force in the world that comes into people's sleep, you are exercising a meaningful power.

— Don DeLillo

I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.

— Don DeLillo

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

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

To portray America over the past twenty years or so, I would think immediately of football, probably the Super Bowl in its…

— Don DeLillo

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

I think a playwright realizes after he finishes working on the script that this is only the beginning. What will happen when…

— Don DeLillo

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

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

Look at those numbers running. Money makes time. It used to be the other way around. Clock time accelerated the rise of…

— Don DeLillo

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

The world is shrinking into a kind of technological funnel. I think people are drawn into their technological devices, and this becomes…

— Don DeLillo

When I read obituaries I always note the age of the deceased. Automatically I relate this figure to my own age. Four…

— Don DeLillo

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

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

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

Years after I'd seen him for the last time I found myself thinking of him unexpectedly and often. You know how certain…

— Don DeLillo

It was only after two years' work that it occurred to me that I was a writer. I had no particular expectation…

— Don DeLillo

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

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

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

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

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

“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

I think that the massive, overarching, interconnected systems of technology tend to make us a little insecure, somewhat pliable, and susceptible to…

— Don DeLillo

I don't know what I think about certain subjects, even today, until I sit down and try to write about them.

— Don DeLillo

I think literature has lost it's power. Great novels continue to be written, but they are no longer changing the world.

— Don DeLillo

I think there is a sense of last things in my work that probably comes from a Catholic childhood.

— Don DeLillo

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

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

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