All Don DeLillo Quotes
- I felt Joyce was an influence on my fiction, but in a very general way, as a kind of inspiration and a model for the… Beauty
- In this century the writer has carried on a conversation with madness. We might almost say of the twentieth-century writer that he aspires to madness.… Almost Say
- There are times when you want to stop working at faith and just be washed in a blowing wind that tells you everything. Blowing
- I think that the massive, overarching, interconnected systems of technology tend to make us a little insecure, somewhat pliable, and susceptible to half-beliefs. Belief
- I don't know what I think about certain subjects, even today, until I sit down and try to write about them. Certain
- Writing is a concentrated form of thinking. Concentrated
- It occurred to me that eating is the only form of professionalism most people ever attain. Attain
- I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version. America
- Mirrors and images. Or sex and love. These are two separate systems that we miserably try to link. Age
- The force of a death should be enormous but how can you know what kind of man you've killed or who was the braver and… Act
- What did it mean, the first time, a thinking creature looked deeply into another's eyes? Did it take a hundred thousand years before this happened… Creature
- Air travel reminds us who we are. It's the means by which we recognize ourselves as modern. The process removes us from the world and… Air
- They passed out of the shade beneath the eaves and flew into sunglare and silence and it was an action she only partly saw, elusive… Action
- Every advance in knowledge and technique is matched by a new kind of death, a new strain. Death adapts, like a viral agent. Adapts
- Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there. On… Always Seen
- Isn't death the boundary we need? Boundaries
- The dead have a presence. Dead
- People had no tolerance for your particular hardship unless you knew how to entertain them with it. Entertain
- ... there was an honesty inherent in bulkiness if it is just the right amount. Amount
- I'd like to lose interest in myself ... Inspirational