Writer Quotes by Don DeLillo

“Writing is freedom.”

— Don Delillo

Writing is a concentrated form of thinking.

— Don DeLillo

I've never made an outline for any novel that I've written. Never.

— Don DeLillo

For me, writing is a concentrated form of thinking.

— Don DeLillo

You become a serious novelist by living long enough.

— Don DeLillo

“One must become a book before one can know what is inside it.”

— Don DeLillo

holes are interesting. there are books about holes.

— Don DeLillo

Somehow pictures always lead to people as masses. Books belong to individuals.

— Don DeLillo

I'm a novelist, period. An American novelist.

— Don DeLillo

When my head is in the typewriter the last thing on my mind is some imaginary reader. I don't have an audience;…

— Don DeLillo

A writer decides to follow some ideas and not others for reasons that aren't always clear to him. It's often a matter…

— Don DeLillo

To a writer, madness is a final distillation of self, a final editing down. It's the drowning out of false voices.

— Don DeLillo

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

— Don DeLillo

A writer takes earnest measures to secure his solitude and then finds endless ways to squander it.

— Don DeLillo

I am not comfortable with abstract writing, stories that look like essays: you have to see, I need to see.

— Don DeLillo

The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence.

— Don DeLillo

One truth is the swing of the sentence, the beat and poise, but down deeper it's the integrity of the writer as…

— Don DeLillo

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

I didn’t do anything. I don’t have an explanation, I don’t know why I wanted to write. I did some short stories…

— Don DeLillo

“Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us.…

— Don DeLillo

It's my contention that each book creates its own structure and its own length. I've written three or four slim books. It…

— Don DeLillo

“When my head is in the typewriter the last thing on my mind is some imaginary reader. I don’t have an audience;…

— 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

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

— 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

Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally…

— Don DeLillo

“As a volunteer reader to the blind, Babette had some reservations about the old gent's appetite for the unspeakable and seamy, believing…

— Don DeLillo

That's how you write novels actually. You suddenly hit upon something and you realize this is the path you were meant to…

— Don DeLillo

“He walked among the bookstore shelves, hearing Muzak in the air. There were rows of handsome covers, prosperous and assured. He felt…

— Don DeLillo

It was only when I found myself writing things I didn't realise I knew that I said, 'I'm a writer now.'

— Don DeLillo

“Brita said, 'I read at home, I read in hotels, I take a book with me on a twenty-minute trip to the…

— Don DeLillo

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

It's true that some of us become better writers by living long enough. But this is also how we become worse writers.…

— Don DeLillo

There's a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the writer's will to live.

— 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

That's what in theory differentiates a writer from everyone else. You see and hear more clearly.

— Don DeLillo

Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us.

— Don DeLillo

In my experience, writing a novel tends to create its own structure, its own demands, its own language, its own ending. So…

— Don DeLillo

“The supermarket shelves have been rearranged. It happened one day without warning. There is agitation and panic in the aisles, dismay in…

— Don DeLillo

“He looked at a picture on the wall and saw everything that existed outside the room he was sitting in and the…

— Don DeLillo