All Don DeLillo Quotes
- 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
- Writers in repressive societies are considered dangerous. That's why so many of them are in jail. Considered
- Human existence had to have a deeper source than our own dank fluids. Dank or rank. There had to be a force behind it, a… Behind
- In this country there is a universal third person, the man we all want to be. Advertising has discovered this man. It uses him to… Advertising
- As belief shrinks from the world, it is more necessary than ever that someone believe. Wild-eyed men in caves. Nuns in black. Monks who do… Abandoned
- I've always seen myself in sentences. I begin to recognize myself, word by word, as I work through a sentence. Always Seen
- I think if you maintain a force in the world that comes into people's sleep, you are exercising a meaningful power. Exercise
- Men with secrets tend to be drawn to each other, not because they want to share what they know but because they need the company… Afflicted
- I saw a photograph of a wedding conducted by Reverend Moon of the Unification Church. I wanted to understand this event, and the only way… Church
- Just because it's on the radio doesn't mean we have to suspend belief in the evidence of our senses. Belief
- I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism. Abstract
- There came a time in every prolonged effort when he had a moment of near panic, or 'terror in a lonely place', the original semantic… Anxiety
- Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us. All
- Music is dangerous in so many ways. It's the most dangerous thing in the world. Dangerous
- We feel certain that the extraterrestrial message is a mathematical code of some kind. Probably a number code. Mathematics is the one language we might… Aliens
- In a repressive society, a writer can be deeply influential, but in a society that's filled with glut and repetition and endless consumption, the act… Act