Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Facts are lonely things.
Don DeLillo
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
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
Lonely
Facts
Things
More quotes by Don DeLillo
If you reveal everything, bare every feeling, ask for understanding, you lose something crucial to your sense of yourself. You need to know things that others don't know. It's what no one knows about you that allows you to know yourself.
Don DeLillo
There are two categories of writers, it could be said: The author who is just a voice, and the one who is also creating a picture. I belong to the latter, because I have an acute visual sense.
Don DeLillo
Something lurked inside the truth.
Don DeLillo
You have to break through the structure of your own stonework habit just to make yourself listen.
Don DeLillo
A photograph is a universe of dots. The grain, the halide, the little silver things clumped in the emulsion. Once you get inside a dot, you gain access to hidden information, you slide into the smallest event. This is what technology does. It peels back the shadows and redeems the dazed and rumbling past. It makes reality come true.
Don DeLillo
The genius of rock music is that it matched the cultural hysteria around it.
Don DeLillo
If you know you're worth nothing, only a gamble with death can gratify your vanity.
Don DeLillo
People had no tolerance for your particular hardship unless you knew how to entertain them with it.
Don DeLillo
Human existence had to have a deeper source than our own dank fluids. Dank or rank. There had to be a force behind it, a principal being who was and is and ever shall be.
Don DeLillo
I think if you maintain a force in the world that comes into people's sleep, you are exercising a meaningful power.
Don DeLillo
We commit our crimes at night and reveal ourselves in the high noon of studio lights.
Don DeLillo
To be a tourist is to escape accountability.
Don DeLillo
Everything I've stated may prove to be total poppycock.... Perhaps time will tell. Perhaps time will do nothing of the kind.
Don DeLillo
Sometimes I see something so moving I know I’m not supposed to linger. See it and leave. If you stay too long, you wear out the wordless shock. Love it and trust it and leave.
Don DeLillo
Fame and secrecy are the high and low ends of the same fascination.
Don DeLillo
Insanity's so personal. It's hard to know who shares our secrets.
Don DeLillo
I am ashamed every day, and more ashamed the next. But I will spend the rest of my life in this living space writing these notes, this journal, recording my acts and reflections, finding some honor, some worth at the bottom of things. I want ten thousand pages that will stop the world.
Don DeLillo
The dead have a presence.
Don DeLillo
I've got death inside me. It's just a question of whether or not I can outlive it.
Don DeLillo
Technology is lust removed from nature.
Don DeLillo