Don Delillo Quote by Greg Carlisle

There's always a host of voices you're inspired by. I love Don DeLillo, and I love Isaac Bashevis Singer, and I love Beckett, and…

— Dylan Moran

I guess of all those novels, Don DeLillo's Falling Man is the one I like the best. I thought there were some beautiful things…

— Paul Auster

“A conspiracy is everything that ordinary life is not. It’s the inside game, cold, sure, undistracted, forever closed off to us. We are the…

— David Grann

I read one of the funniest books last week by Don DeLillo. He wrote this book, 'Amazons' many years ago, under the pseudonym Cleo…

— Ardal O'Hanlon

I won't read a book that starts with a description of the weather. I don't read books over 300 pages, though I'll make an…

— Elmore Leonard

Most American writers don't get asked their opinion on current affairs, whereas in Europe and England, we still do. There are writers here who…

— Salman Rushdie

The reason some crime writers have a chip on their shoulder about the label is because their good books are shelved beside books about…

— George Pelecanos

“It is so much simpler to bury reality than it is to dispose of dreams. ― Don DeLillo, Americana (ACTES SUD; 0 edition, August 10, 1993)”

— Don DeLillo

A lot of the fiction I read growing up was post-war American, and not all of it centers on Manhattan, but around people of…

— Dylan Moran

“Why does the writer write? The writer writes to serve — hopelessly he writes in the hope that he might serve — not himself…

— Joy Williams

“Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us. In the…

— Don DeLillo

Don DeLillo's 'White Noise,' which I read when I was 19. It showed me that a book can be funny as hell and deadly…

— Kevin Barry