Books Quote by Don DeLillo Download Open image ““Remember literature, Charlie? It involved getting drunk and getting laid.”” — Don DeLillo ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Getting drunk Getting laid
“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 Copy Share Image
“I remember that night fondly. And by fondly, I mean with bitter resentment toward all things alcoholic and with a penis.” — Tara Sivec Copy Share Image
“He yelled, "Charlie, you know where I am, don't you? All right, Charlie, this isn't literature. This is life.” — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“To the poor memories of drunks,' she said. 'To all the lovely nights forever lost.” — S. Fitts Copy Share Image
“To write, I need to remember, but I write to forget. I drink to forget, then get nostalgic when I’m drunk.” — Shoshaku Jushaku Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“I wish I could get drunk and do useful things without remembering -like finishing a book, or cleaning the tub.” — Edward Southgate Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“We all know how the thing we secretly fear is not a secret at all but the open and eternal thing that predicts its… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Everything is barely weeks. Everything is days. We have minutes to live. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
The novel is the dream release, the suspension of reality that history needs to escape its own brutal confinements. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“As I listened I thought a featureless baggy man was striking me in slow motion with a well-polished stone.” — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“Murray said, 'I don't trust anybody's nostalgia but my own. Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. It´s a settling of grievances between… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“She is beginning to think it is possible that all creation is a spurt of blank matter that chances to make an emerald planet… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“Those who have abandoned belief must still believe in us. They are sure that they are right not to believe but they know belief… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“The plane had lost power in all three engines, dropped from thirty-four thousand feet to twelve thousand feet. Something like four miles. When the… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“Grass: I live in a great steel tower that reflects the blazing sun. People catch fire just walking by. The more bodies that pile… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“Marriage is something we make from available materials. In this sense it’s improvised, it’s almost offhand. Maybe this is why we know so little… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
The true life is not reducible to words spoken or written, not by anyone, ever. The true life takes place when we're alone, thinking,… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
