Don DeLillo Quotes
- There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.
- Hardship makes the world obscure.
- Because friends have to be brutally honest with each other. I'd feel terrible if I didn't tell you what I was thinking, especially at a…
- I slept for four years. I didn't study much of anything. I majored in something called communication arts.
- Fame and secrecy are the high and low ends of the same fascination.
- It is interesting ... how weapons reflect the soul of the maker.
- 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 to a certain…
- If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central…
- The figure of the gunman in the window was inextricable from the victim and his history. This sustained Oswald in his cell. It gave him…
- People stress the violence. That's the smallest part of it. Football is brutal only from a distance. In the middle of it there's a calm,…
- 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 life…
- Once you've seen the signs about the barn, it becomes impossible to see the barn.
- I've never made an outline for any novel that I've written. Never.
- Everyone who does not live in Berlin lives in Brooklyn now.
- It's my contention that each book creates its own structure and its own length. I've written three or four slim books. It may be that…
- Pain is just another form of information.
- And what's the point of waking up in the morning if you don't try to match the enormousness of the known forces in the world…
- The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence.
- The modern meaning of life's end-when does it end? How does it end? How should it end? What is the value of life? How do…
- There's a connection between the advances that are made in technology and the sense of primitive fear people develop in response to it.