Quote

A person rises on a word and falls on a syllable.

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
Syllable
Syllables
Rises
Falls
Word
Fall
Persons
Person

More quotes by Don DeLillo

Image
I've got death inside me. It's just a question of whether or not I can outlive it.
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
The family is the cradle of the world's misinformation.
Don DeLillo
Image
There's a connection between the advances that are made in technology and the sense of primitive fear people develop in response to it.
Don DeLillo
Image
Do people still shoot at presidents? I thought there were more stimulating targets.' (20)
Don DeLillo
Image
The question of dying becomes a wise reminder. It cures us of our innocence of the future.
Don DeLillo
Image
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
Image
I was always younger than anyone around me. One day it began to change.
Don DeLillo
Image
It occurred to me that eating is the only form of professionalism most people ever attain.
Don DeLillo
Image
Pain is just another form of information.
Don DeLillo
Image
People in free societies don't have to fear the pathology of the state. We create our own frenzy, our own mass convulsions, driven by thinking machines that we have no final authority over. The frenzy is barely noticeable most of the time. It's simply how we live.
Don DeLillo
Image
When you try to unravel something you've written, you belittle it in a way. It was created as a mystery.
Don DeLillo
Image
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.
Don DeLillo
Image
A novel determines its own size and shape and I've never tried to stretch an idea beyond the frame and structure it seemed to require.
Don DeLillo
Image
Naturally a direct comparison of terrorist and novelist is complete nonsense. But there was once a time when the novelist also had some influence on how his contemporaries thought, the way they saw the world, the way they lived.
Don DeLillo
Image
The family was an art ... and the dinner table was the place it found expression.
Don DeLillo
Image
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
Image
Isn't death the boundary we need?
Don DeLillo
Image
Dying was just an extended version of Ash Wednesday.
Don DeLillo
Image
Something lurked inside the truth.
Don DeLillo