Quotes By Don DeLillo
There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.
Don DeLillo
I think there is a sense of last things in my work that probably comes from a Catholic childhood.
Don DeLillo
When you try to unravel something you've written, you belittle it in a way. It was created as a mystery.
Don DeLillo
I've always seen myself in sentences. I begin to recognize myself, word by word, as I work through a sentence.
Don DeLillo
The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence.
Don DeLillo
I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.
Don DeLillo
True terror is a language and a vision. There is a deep narrative structure to terrorist acts, and they infiltrate and alter consciousness in ways that writers used to aspire to.
Don DeLillo
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