Art Quote by Amitava Kumar

Not long ago, a novelist could believe he could have an effect on our consciousness of terror. Today, the men who shape and inflence…

— Don DeLillo

“What terrorists gain, novelists lose. The degree to which they influence mass consciousness is the extent of our decline as shapers of sensibility and…

— 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 the inner…

— Don DeLillo

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

— Don DeLillo

One connection I see between novelists and terrorists is that we both attempt to alter consciousness.

— Don DeLillo

“In societies reduced to blur and glut, terror is the only meaningful act. There's too much everything, more things and messages and meanings that…

— Don DeLillo

Terrorists are people, too - they are given to error. Naipaul and then DeLillo do a good job in their novels of drawing this…

— Karan Mahajan

True terror is a language and a vision. There is a deep narrative structure to terrorist acts, and they infiltrate and alter consciousness in…

— Don DeLillo

I think people have turned terrorists into these larger-than-life devils and so are unable to write about them in the obvious way, which is…

— Karan Mahajan

Terrorism really doesn't strike at physical structures as much as it strikes at ideas, and its main fear is ideas. And cartoonists are particularly…

— Jack Ohman

I've been interested in terrorism from the very beginning. My first novel is about that, too, and I think one reason I've been so…

— Jennifer Egan

I doubt the terrorists saw 9/11 as a teaching opportunity. And we're not really a culture geared to anything as humble as 'learning.' But…

— Jess Walter