Books Quote by Don DeLillo

“Charlie was long accustomed to nightmares, the worst moments of her past forced up like bile, into twisted versions of memories already too terrible…

— Scott Cawthon

“I remember that night fondly. And by fondly, I mean with bitter resentment toward all things alcoholic and with a penis.”

— Tara Sivec

“He yelled, "Charlie, you know where I am, don't you? All right, Charlie, this isn't literature. This is life.”

— Saul Bellow

“To the poor memories of drunks,' she said. 'To all the lovely nights forever lost.”

— S. Fitts

“To write, I need to remember, but I write to forget. I drink to forget, then get nostalgic when I’m drunk.”

— Shoshaku Jushaku

“I remembered reading in a hard-boiled detective novel that if you drink in the same place two nights in a row, the bartender and…

— Ryū Murakami

“Alcohol. It can give the courage to talk dirty and the permission to go home with the bartender. It’s the alibi. The cover story.…

— Emma Chase

“And yes, the Hemingways, the Fitzgeralds, the Faulkners and the Capotes. Drank while writing. Drink next to the typewriter. But the longer I lived…

— Jeanne Darst

“I wish I could get drunk and do useful things without remembering -like finishing a book, or cleaning the tub.”

— Edward Southgate

“I knew what Charley would do. He would spend the evening drinking himself into the mindset of a cinder block. If they had given…

— Dan Ahearn

“The memories were like ashes. No fire. Not even a spark. No other sex in my life had touched this level of eroticism.”

— M. Pierce

“Some drink to forget, I drink to remember. I drink in order to understand what I mean and to discover what I know. Under…

— Peter Ackroyd