Believe Quote by Don DeLillo

“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

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

— Don DeLillo

Naturally a direct comparison of terrorist and novelist is complete nonsense. But there was once a time when the novelist also had some influence…

— Don DeLillo

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

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

“In societies reduced to blur and glut, terror is the only meaningful act. There's too much everything, more things and messages and meanings that…

— Don DeLillo

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

Terror is now the world narrative, unquestionably. When those two buildings were struck, and when they collapsed, it was, in effect, an extraordinary blow…

— 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

What terrorists gain, novelists lose.

— Don DeLillo

Terror is only justice: prompt, severe and inflexible. It is then an emanation of virtue.

— Maximilien Robespierre

Terror works by surprise.

— Peter Hitchens