He wanted paper and something to write with, some way to sustain a thought, to place it in the world. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
A writer takes earnest measures to secure his solitude and then finds endless ways to squander it. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
The genius of the primitive mind is that it can render human helplessness in noble and beautiful ways. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Money has lost its narrative quality the way painting did once upon a time. Money is talking to itself. — 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
We surrounded ourselves with smoke and loud noise. That's the way we chose to live. I'm prepared to defend it. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Music is dangerous in so many ways. It's the most dangerous thing in the world. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
True terror is a language and a vision. There is a deep narrative structure to terrorist acts, and they infiltrate and alter… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
To be a tourist is to escape accountability. Errors and failings don't cling to you the way they do back home. You're… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
[I]n the American soul there is a lonely individual standing in a vast landscape. He is either on a horse or driving… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
I saw a photograph of a wedding conducted by Reverend Moon of the Unification Church. I wanted to understand this event, and… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
In fiction, I tend to write fairly realistic dialogue-not always, and it tends to vary from book to book. But in many… — 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
At night the sky was very near, sprawled in star smoke and gamma cataclysms, but she didn't see it the way she… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
A Catholic is raised with the idea that he will die any minute now and if he doesn't live his life in… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
There is a balance, a kind of standoff between the time continuum and the human entity, our frail bundle of soma and… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
The excitement of theatre is palpable but the frustrations, and the complete absence of a definitive evening - the play as text… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Naturally a direct comparison of terrorist and novelist is complete nonsense. But there was once a time when the novelist also had… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
If an idea seems to find its way towards a stage setting, that's the direction I take. I don't know if I'm… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
When you try to unravel something you've written, you belittle it in a way. It was created as a mystery. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
I felt Joyce was an influence on my fiction, but in a very general way, as a kind of inspiration and a… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
First you look for discipline and control. You want to exercise your will, bend the language your way, bend the world your… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
He'd once told me that the art of getting ahead in New York was based on learning how to express dissatisfaction in… — 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
![“[I]n the American soul there is a lonely individual standing in a vast landscape. He is either on a horse or driving a car, depending, and either way he’s carrying a gun. This is one of the essential images in American mythology.” quote by Don DeLillo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/595/don-delillo-294_car_i-n-the-american-soul-there-is-a-lonely_894367.jpg)
