Quote

I slept for four years. I didn't study much of anything. I majored in something called communication arts.

Don DeLillo

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Don DeLillo
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Don Delillo
Donald Richard DeLillo
Art
Didn
Majored
Reality
Slept
Anything
Arts
Much
Communication
Something
Study
Years
Called
Four

More quotes by Don DeLillo

Image
In the American soul there is a lonely individual standing in a vast landscape.
Don DeLillo
Image
The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence.
Don DeLillo
Image
A writer takes earnest measures to secure his solitude and then finds endless ways to squander it.
Don DeLillo
Image
Everything's a scandal. Dying's a scandal. But we all do it.
Don DeLillo
Image
Isn't death the boundary we need?
Don DeLillo
Image
Isn't death the boundary we need? Doesn't it give a precious texture to life, a sense of definition? You have to ask yourself whether anything you do in this life would have beauty and meaning without the knowledge you carry of a final line, a border or limit.
Don DeLillo
Image
There are dead stars that still shine because their light is trapped in time. Where do I stand in this light, which does not strictly exist? (155)
Don DeLillo
Image
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
Image
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
Image
In the face of technology, everything becomes a little atavistic.
Don DeLillo
Image
There are times when you want to stop working at faith and just be washed in a blowing wind that tells you everything.
Don DeLillo
Image
Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us.
Don DeLillo
Image
I think literature has lost it's power. Great novels continue to be written, but they are no longer changing the world.
Don DeLillo
Image
Everyone who does not live in Berlin lives in Brooklyn now.
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
I think if you maintain a force in the world that comes into people's sleep, you are exercising a meaningful power.
Don DeLillo
Image
Off-camera lives are unverifiable.
Don DeLillo
Image
Stories are consoling, fiction is one of the consolation prizes for having lived in the world.
Don DeLillo
Image
No sense of the irony of human experience, that we are the highest form of life on earth, and yet ineffably sad because we know what no other animal knows, that we must die.
Don DeLillo
Image
I've got death inside me. It's just a question of whether or not I can outlive it.
Don DeLillo