Comparison Quote by Don DeLillo

Not long ago, a novelist could believe he could have an effect on our consciousness of terror. Today, the men who shape and inflence…

— Don DeLillo

One connection I see between novelists and terrorists is that we both attempt to alter consciousness.

— Don DeLillo

terrorism is interesting to a novelist because it's a crime that's driven by an idea, as opposed to some kind of base materialist impulse.…

— Karan Mahajan

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…

— Don DeLillo

Now, I am not saying that there is one single type of individual who is a better type of terrorist than another. What I…

— Loretta Napoleoni

Terrorists are people, too - they are given to error. Naipaul and then DeLillo do a good job in their novels of drawing this…

— Karan Mahajan

I have long held that many of the writers and artists working in the aftermath of 9/11 have presented a faux familiarity with the…

— Amitava Kumar

“What terrorists gain, novelists lose. The degree to which they influence mass consciousness is the extent of our decline as shapers of sensibility and…

— Don DeLillo

I found it really disturbing to see a novelist writing a diatribe about Islam and Muslim radical extremists, blurring the distinction between the two.

— Pankaj Mishra

Terrorism is based on two major pillars: One is injustice, and the other is a certainty of attitude, the notion that their version of…

— Shirin Ebadi

True terror is a language and a vision. There is a deep narrative structure to terrorist acts, and they infiltrate and alter consciousness in…

— Don DeLillo

Some people are more terrorist than others

— John Keegan