All 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. Breeze
- Hardship makes the world obscure. Hardship
- 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… Brutally
- I slept for four years. I didn't study much of anything. I majored in something called communication arts. Art
- Fame and secrecy are the high and low ends of the same fascination. Ends
- It is interesting ... how weapons reflect the soul of the maker. Antiwar
- 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… Another Part
- 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… 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… Cell
- 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,… Accept
- 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… Ago
- Once you've seen the signs about the barn, it becomes impossible to see the barn. Barn
- I've never made an outline for any novel that I've written. Never. Any
- Everyone who does not live in Berlin lives in Brooklyn now. Berlin
- 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… Big
- Pain is just another form of information. Another Form
- 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… Force
- The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence. Affiliation
- 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… Doe
- There's a connection between the advances that are made in technology and the sense of primitive fear people develop in response to it. Advances
- There's a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the writer's will to live. Force
- There's never a dearth of reasons to shoot at the President. Dearth
- True terror is a language and a vision. There is a deep narrative structure to terrorist acts, and they infiltrate and alter consciousness in ways… Acts
- When you try to unravel something you've written, you belittle it in a way. It was created as a mystery. Belittle
- I am not particularly distressed by the state of fiction or the role of the writer. The more marginal, perhaps ultimately the more trenchant and… Distressed