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Work Quotes by Don DeLillo
- 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…
- I've always seen myself in sentences. I begin to recognize myself, word by word, as I work through a sentence.
- 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…
- I quit my job just to quit. I didn't quit my job to write fiction. I just didn't want to work anymore.
- I think there is a sense of last things in my work that probably comes from a Catholic childhood.
- I've always liked being relatively obscure. I feel that's where I belong, that's where my work belongs.
- I didn’t do anything. I don’t have an explanation, I don’t know why I wanted to write. I did some short stories at that time,…
- Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work.
- When I work, I'm just translating the world around me in what seems to be straightforward terms. For my readers, this is sometimes a vision…
- 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…
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- Successful people don't relax on a chair. They feel relaxed with their work. They sleep with their dreams and wake up with… — Ritu Ghatourey
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- I just let the work speak for itself. An actor is not afraid to take risks; to put on different hats; to… — Kevin Bacon
- Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me… — Lucille Ball
- Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory. — Ralph Waldo Emerson