Don DeLillo Quotes

• I watch movies occasionally, and I watch documentaries. Virtually nothing else.

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• I think there is a sense of last things in my work that probably comes from a Catholic childhood.

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• I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.

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• 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?

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• I slept for four years. I didn’t study much of anything. I majored in something called communication arts.

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• 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.

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• I quit my job just to quit. I didn’t quit my job to write fiction. I just didn’t want to work anymore.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• I embarked on my life – I didn’t do anything. I don’t have an explanation.

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• Hardship makes the world obscure.

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• For me, writing is a concentrated form of thinking.

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

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• Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.

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• American writers ought to stand and live in the margins, and be more dangerous.

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• America was and is the immigrant’s dream.

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• 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.

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• People who are powerless make an open theater of violence.

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  Topics in Power

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

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  Topics in Power

• There’s always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.

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  Topics in Nature

Don DeLillo (60)

Birth:	20th November, 1936
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Essayist, Novelist, Writer, Playwriter

About

Don DeLillo is an American essayist, novelist, playwright, and short story writer. His works have covered subjects as diverse as television, nuclear war, sports, the complexities of language, performance art, the Cold War, mathematics, the advent of the digital age, and global terrorism.

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