Connections 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

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

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

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

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

Terrorists have goals beyond their supposed pacts with God. They are authors, too.

— Karan Mahajan

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

“Words unconsciously shift thoughts and feelings. One person's 'terrorist' is another's 'freedom fighter'; politicians jockey to commandeer 'family values,' and somehow you can't favor…

— Robert Sapolsky

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

"The War on Consciousness" is really all physical manifestations and all those problems are ultimately just a war on your way of thinking. Especially…

— Mark McGwire