World Quotes by Don DeLillo

“There are no amateurs in the world of children.”

— Don DeLillo

“The world is full of abandoned meanings.”

— Don DeLillo

When he died he would not end. The world would end.

— Don DeLillo

There is a world inside the world.

— Don DeLillo

Hardship makes the world obscure.

— Don DeLillo

“The truth of the world is exhausting.”

— Don DeLillo

When birds look into houses, what impossible worlds they see.

— Don DeLillo

The family is the cradle of the world's misinformation.

— Don DeLillo

In our world we sleep and eat the image and pray to it and wear it too.

— 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

The world isn't going to be destroyed, but you don't feel safe anymore in your plane or train or office or auditorium.

— Don DeLillo

That's the world out there, little green apples and infectious disease.

— Don DeLillo

Stories are consoling, fiction is one of the consolation prizes for having lived in the world.

— Don DeLillo

He wanted paper and something to write with, some way to sustain a thought, to place it in the world.

— Don DeLillo

Music is dangerous in so many ways. It's the most dangerous thing in the world.

— 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

“If the world is where we hide from ourselves, what do we do when the world is no longer accessible? We invent…

— Don DeLillo

And what's the point of waking up in the morning if you don't try to match the enormousness of the known forces…

— Don DeLillo

He took pains to avoid self-depreciation, self-mockery, ambiguity, irony, subtlety, vulnerability, a civilized world-weariness and a tragic sense of history--the very things,…

— Don DeLillo

Naturally a direct comparison of terrorist and novelist is complete nonsense. But there was once a time when the novelist also had…

— 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

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

— Don DeLillo

For most people, there are only two places in the world. Where they live and their TV set. If a thing happens…

— Don DeLillo

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

I am ashamed every day, and more ashamed the next. But I will spend the rest of my life in this living…

— Don DeLillo

America is the world's living myth. There's no sense of wrong when you kill an American or blame America for some local…

— 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

The difference between the world of pictures and the world of printed matter is extraordinary and hard to define. A picture is…

— Don DeLillo

I never wanted to change the world. Norman Mailer wanted to, he set himself the task of changing the consciousness of our…

— Don DeLillo

First you look for discipline and control. You want to exercise your will, bend the language your way, bend the world your…

— Don DeLillo

Time seems to pass. The world happens, unrolling into moments, and you stop to glance at a spider pressed to its web.…

— Don DeLillo

As belief shrinks from the world, it is more necessary than ever that someone believe. Wild-eyed men in caves. Nuns in black.…

— Don DeLillo

There is a balance, a kind of standoff between the time continuum and the human entity, our frail bundle of soma and…

— Don DeLillo

To plot is to live. […] We start out lives in chaos, in babble. As we surge up into the world, we…

— Don DeLillo

World is supposed to mean something that's self-contained. but nothing is self-contained.

— Don DeLillo

The world is full of abandoned meanings. In the commonplace I find unexpected themes and intensities.

— Don DeLillo

Terror is now the world narrative, unquestionably. When those two buildings were struck, and when they collapsed, it was, in effect, an…

— Don DeLillo

Film is more than the twentieth-century art. It's another part of the twentieth-century mind. It's the world seen from inside. We've come…

— Don DeLillo

Air travel reminds us who we are. It's the means by which we recognize ourselves as modern. The process removes us from…

— Don DeLillo