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Writing is a concentrated form of thinking.

Don DeLillo

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Don DeLillo
Age: 87
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
Essayist
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New York City
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Don Delillo
Donald Richard DeLillo
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I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version.
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You have to break through the structure of your own stonework habit just to make yourself listen.
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A writer takes earnest measures to secure his solitude and then finds endless ways to squander it.
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