Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Dying was just an extended version of Ash Wednesday.
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
Death
Wednesday
Extended
Ashes
Version
Versions
Dying
More quotes by Don DeLillo
The less important you are in an office, the more they expect the happy smile.
Don DeLillo
The future is always a wholeness, a sameness. We're all tall and happy there,' she said. 'This is why the future fails. It always fails. It can never be the cruel happy place we want to make it.
Don DeLillo
I understand there are some men who are only half here. Let's not say men. Let's say people. People who are more or less obscure at times.
Don DeLillo
Making things difficult for the reader is less an attack on the reader than it is on the age and its facile knowledge-market.
Don DeLillo
Before pop art, there was such a thing as bad taste. Now there's kitsch, schlock, camp, and porn.
Don DeLillo
I would never write in response to what I believe the public wanted or needed.
Don DeLillo
To a writer, madness is a final distillation of self, a final editing down. It's the drowning out of false voices.
Don DeLillo
Everyone who does not live in Berlin lives in Brooklyn now.
Don DeLillo
I never wanted to change the world. Norman Mailer wanted to, he set himself the task of changing the consciousness of our age. And I think he came pretty close, in the 1960s, to actually managing to do it. But me? No, no, I never wanted anything like that. I'm not Maileresque.
Don DeLillo
In the American soul there is a lonely individual standing in a vast landscape.
Don DeLillo
Murray said, ´I don´t trust anybody´s nostalgia but my own. Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. It´s a settling of grievances between the present and the past. The more powerful the nostalgia, the closer you come to violence. War is the form nostalgia takes when men are hard-pressed to say something good about their country.´
Don DeLillo
Everything's a scandal. Dying's a scandal. But we all do it.
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
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.
Don DeLillo
When I read obituaries I always note the age of the deceased. Automatically I relate this figure to my own age. Four years to go, I think. Nine more years. Two years and I'm dead. The power of numbers is never more evident than when we use them to speculate on the time of our dying.
Don DeLillo
The question of dying becomes a wise reminder. It cures us of our innocence of the future.
Don DeLillo
He took pains to avoid self-depreciation, self-mockery, ambiguity, irony, subtlety, vulnerability, a civilized world-weariness and a tragic sense of history--the very things, he says, that are most natural to him.
Don DeLillo
Just because it's on the radio doesn't mean we have to suspend belief in the evidence of our senses.
Don DeLillo
Mirrors and images. Or sex and love. These are two separate systems that we miserably try to link.
Don DeLillo
You become a serious novelist by living long enough.
Don DeLillo
