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Don Delillo Quotes
A Catholic is raised with the idea that he will die any minute now and if he doesnt live his life in a certain way, this death is an introduction to an eternity of pain. - Don Delillo Quotes
America was and is the immigrants dream. - Don Delillo Quotes
American writers ought to stand and live in the margins, and be more dangerous. - Don Delillo Quotes
Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom. - Don Delillo Quotes
Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there. - Don Delillo Quotes
For me, writing is a concentrated form of thinking. - Don Delillo Quotes
Hardship makes the world obscure. - Don Delillo Quotes
I embarked on my life - I didnt do anything. I dont have an explanation. - Don Delillo Quotes
I felt Joyce was an influence on my fiction, but in a very general way, as a kind of inspiration and a model for the beauty of language. - Don Delillo Quotes
I like the construction of sentences and the juxtaposition of words-not just how they sound or what they mean, but even what they look like. - Don Delillo Quotes
I quit my job just to quit. I didnt quit my job to write fiction. I just didnt want to work anymore. - Don Delillo Quotes
I saw a photograph of a wedding conducted by Reverend Moon of the Unification Church. I wanted to understand this event, and the only way to understand it was to write about it. - Don Delillo Quotes
I slept for four years. I didnt study much of anything. I majored in something called communication arts. - Don Delillo Quotes
I think a playwright realizes after he finishes working on the script that this is only the beginning. What will happen when it moves into three dimensions? - Don Delillo Quotes
I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism. - Don Delillo Quotes
I think there is a sense of last things in my work that probably comes from a Catholic childhood. - Don Delillo Quotes
I watch movies occasionally, and I watch documentaries. Virtually nothing else. - Don Delillo Quotes
Ive always liked being relatively obscure. I feel thats where I belong, thats where my work belongs. - Don Delillo Quotes
Ive always seen myself in sentences. I begin to recognize myself, word by word, as I work through a sentence. - Don Delillo Quotes
Ive come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version. - Don Delillo Quotes
If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature. Lovely. - Don Delillo Quotes
In a repressive society, a writer can be deeply influential, but in a society thats filled with glut and repetition and endless consumption, the act of terror may be the only meaningful act. - Don Delillo Quotes
In the face of technology, everything becomes a little atavistic. - Don Delillo Quotes
It occured to me that eating is the only form of professionalism most people ever attain. - Don Delillo Quotes
Its no accident that my first novel was called Americana. This was a private declaration of independence, a statement of my intention to use the whole picture, the whole culture. - Don Delillo Quotes
May the days be aimless. Do not advance action according to a plan. - Don Delillo Quotes
Men with secrets tend to be drawn to each other, not because they want to share what they know but because they need the company of the like-minded, the fellow afflicted. - Don Delillo Quotes
Never underestimate the power of the State to act out its own massive fantasies. - Don Delillo Quotes
One truth is the swing of the sentence, the beat and poise, but down deeper its the integrity of the writer as he matches with the language. - Don Delillo Quotes
People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power. - Don Delillo Quotes
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