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Don DeLillo
Age: 87
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
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New York City
New York
Don Delillo
Donald Richard DeLillo
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A mystery novel localizes the awesome force of the real death outside the book, winds it tightly in a plot.
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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.
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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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The family was an art ... and the dinner table was the place it found expression.
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I think that the massive, overarching, interconnected systems of technology tend to make us a little insecure, somewhat pliable, and susceptible to half-beliefs.
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People think about who they are in the stillest hour of the night. I carry this thought, the child's mystery and terror of this thought, I feel this immensity in my soul every second of my life.
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I hate my life. I'm at the point where I want to hear about other people's lives. it's like switching from fiction to biography.
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A person rises on a word and falls on a syllable.
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Everything that goes on in your whole life is a result of molecules rushing around somewhere in your brain.
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I've never made an outline for any novel that I've written. Never.
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Stories have no point if they don't absorb our terror.
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Doesn't our knowledge of death make life more precious?' What good is a preciousness based on fear and anxiety? It's an anxious quivering thing
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I'm a novelist, period. An American novelist.
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There were moments when she wasn't talking so much as fading into time, dropping back into some funnelled stretch of recent past.
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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.
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Ecology is boring for the same reason that destruction is fun.
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Bloomberg weighed three hundred pounds. This itself was historical. I revered his weight. It was an affirmation of humanity's reckless potential it went beyond legend and returned through mist to the lovely folly of history. To weigh three hundred pounds. What devout vulgarity.
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People hurried past, the others of the street, endless anonymous, twenty-one lives per second, race-walking in their faces and pigments, sprays of fleetest being.
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The term itself--my life--is a desperate overstatement.
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Writers, some of us, may tend to see things before other people do, things that are right there but aren't noticed in the way that a writer might notice.
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