I would never write in response to what I believe the public wanted or needed. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Years ago I used to think it was possible for a novelist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb-makers… — 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
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
In a repressive society, a writer can be deeply influential, but in a society that's filled with glut and repetition and endless… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I quit my job just to quit. I didn't quit my job to write fiction. I just didn't want to work anymore. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us.… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
The writer is driven by his conviction that some truths aren't arrived at so easily, that life is still full of mystery,… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
In my experience, writing a novel tends to create its own structure, its own demands, its own language, its own ending. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“Only writing could soak up his loneliness and pain. Written words could tell him who he was.” — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
There are two categories of writers, it could be said: The author who is just a voice, and the one who is… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“Within sixty-minute limits or one-hundred-yard limits or the limits of a game board, we can look for perfect moments or perfect structures.… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
I am not comfortable with abstract writing, stories that look like essays: you have to see, I need to see. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It was only after two years' work that it occurred to me that I was a writer. I had no particular expectation… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
In my experience, writing a novel tends to create its own structure, its own demands, its own language, its own ending. So… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
That's what in theory differentiates a writer from everyone else. You see and hear more clearly. — 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 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
