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People who are powerless make an open theater of violence.

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

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.

Don DeLillo

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

Don DeLillo

In the face of technology, everything becomes a little atavistic.

Don DeLillo

May the days be aimless. Do not advance action according to a plan.

Don DeLillo

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

The language of my books has shaped me as a man.

Don DeLillo

People will always make comparisons.

Don DeLillo

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

Don DeLillo

I embarked on my life - I didn't do anything. I don't have an explanation.

Don DeLillo

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

Don DeLillo

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

I've always liked being relatively obscure. I feel that's where I belong, that's where my work belongs.

Don DeLillo

Never underestimate the power of the State to act out its own massive fantasies.

Don DeLillo

The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence.

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

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

Don DeLillo

In a repressive society, a writer can be deeply influential, but in a society that's filled with glut and repetition and endless consumption, the act of terror may be the only meaningful act.

Don DeLillo

It's 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

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

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

Don DeLillo

There's a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the writer's will to live.

Don DeLillo

The modern meaning of life's end-when does it end? How does it end? How should it end? What is the value of life? How do we measure it?

Don DeLillo

America was and is the immigrant's dream.

Don DeLillo

For me, writing is a concentrated form of thinking.

Don DeLillo

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

Don DeLillo

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

Don DeLillo

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

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

The future belongs to crowds.

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

Hardship makes the world obscure.

Don DeLillo

People who are powerless make an open theater of violence.

Don DeLillo

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

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

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