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Thinking Quotes by Don DeLillo
- 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…
- 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…
- I think if you maintain a force in the world that comes into people's sleep, you are exercising a meaningful power.
- I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.
- I think that the massive, overarching, interconnected systems of technology tend to make us a little insecure, somewhat pliable, and susceptible to half-beliefs.
- I don't know what I think about certain subjects, even today, until I sit down and try to write about them.
- Writing is a concentrated form of thinking.
- I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version.
- 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…
- I think it's only in a crisis that Americans see other people. It has to be an American crisis, of course. If two countries fight…
- I think a playwright realizes after he finishes working on the script that this is only the beginning. What will happen when it moves into…
- I think there is a sense of last things in my work that probably comes from a Catholic childhood.
- The power of the dead is that we think they see us all the time. The dead have a presence. Is there a level of…
- When I read obituaries I always note the age of the deceased. Automatically I relate this figure to my own age. Four years to go,…
- Writing is a concentrated form of thinking...a young writer sees that with words he can place himself more clearly into the world. Words on a…
- Years after I'd seen him for the last time I found myself thinking of him unexpectedly and often. You know how certain places grow powerful…
- People think about who they are in the stillest hour of the night. I carry this thought, the child's mystery and terror of this thought,…
- I used to think it was possible for an artist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb-makers and gunmen have taken that…
- It was only after two years' work that it occurred to me that I was a writer. I had no particular expectation that the novel…
- He thinks he's happy but it's just a nerve cell in his brain that's getting too much stimulation or too little stimulation.
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