Quotes By Don DeLillo

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.

There's never a dearth of reasons to shoot at the President.

America was and is the immigrant's dream.

People will always make comparisons.

There's a connection between the advances that are made in technology and the sense of primitive fear people develop in response to it.

Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work.

Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there.

For me, writing is a concentrated form of thinking.

I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version.

It occured to me that eating is the only form of professionalism most people ever attain.

People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power.

A Catholic is raised with the idea that he will die any minute now and if he doesn't live his life in a certain way, this death is an introduction to an eternity of pain.

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?

Writers in repressive societies are considered dangerous. That's why so many of them are in jail.

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.