Quote

I've got death inside me. It's just a question of whether or not I can outlive it.

Don DeLillo

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Don DeLillo
Age: 87
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Don Delillo
Donald Richard DeLillo
Question
Whether
Death
Outlive
Inside

More quotes by Don DeLillo

Image
What terrorists gain, novelists lose.
Don DeLillo
Image
There is a set of balances and rhythms to a novel that we can't experience in real life. So I think there is a sense in which fiction can rescue history from confusion.
Don DeLillo
Image
I've never made an outline for any novel that I've written. Never.
Don DeLillo
Image
Do people still shoot at presidents? I thought there were more stimulating targets.' (20)
Don DeLillo
Image
Explain me to myself, you’ll make me choke on my lunch. Feel sympathy for me, I’ll puke monkey blood on your understated shoes.
Don DeLillo
Image
It is all falling indelibly into the past.
Don DeLillo
Image
The writer is driven by his conviction that some truths aren't arrived at so easily, that life is still full of mystery, that it might be better for you, Dear Reader, if you went back to the Living section of your newspaper because this is the dying section and you don't really want to be here.
Don DeLillo
Image
I think fiction recues history from its confusions.
Don DeLillo
Image
The difference between the world of pictures and the world of printed matter is extraordinary and hard to define. A picture is like the masses: a multitude of impressions. A book on the other hand, with its linear advance of words and characters seems to be connected to individual identity.
Don DeLillo
Image
That's why people take vacations. No to relax or find excitement or see new places. To escape the death that exists in routine things.
Don DeLillo
Image
Everything that goes on in your whole life is a result of molecules rushing around somewhere in your brain.
Don DeLillo
Image
It occurred to me that eating is the only form of professionalism most people ever attain.
Don DeLillo
Image
The world is full of abandoned meanings. In the commonplace I find unexpected themes and intensities.
Don DeLillo
Image
A shrewd person would one day start a religion based on coincidence, if he hasn't already, and make a million.
Don DeLillo
Image
I didn’t do anything. I don’t have an explanation, I don’t know why I wanted to write. I did some short stories at that time, but very infrequently. I quit my job just to quit. I didn’t quit my job to write fiction. I just didn’t want to work anymore
Don DeLillo
Image
What did it mean, the first time, a thinking creature looked deeply into another's eyes? Did it take a hundred thousand years before this happened or it was the first thing they did, transcendingly, the thing that made them higher, made them modern, the gaze that demonstrates we are lonely in our souls?
Don DeLillo
Image
Time is a corporate asset now. It belongs to the free market system. The present is harder to find... The future becomes insistent.
Don DeLillo
Image
I marched and I protested against the war in Vietnam, along with many, many thousands of others. But I never quite understood the bombs that were placed in science labs or office buildings.
Don DeLillo
Image
I've always liked being relatively obscure. I feel that's where I belong, that's where my work belongs.
Don DeLillo
Image
I think fiction comes from everything you've ever done, and said, and dreamed, and imagined. It comes from everything you've read and haven't read... I think my work comes out of the culture of the world around me. I think that's where my language comes from.
Don DeLillo