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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.
Don DeLillo
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Don DeLillo
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
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New York City
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Donald Richard DeLillo
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To portray America over the past twenty years or so, I would think immediately of football, probably the Super Bowl in its sumptuous suggestion of a national death wish.
Don DeLillo
I would never write in response to what I believe the public wanted or needed.
Don DeLillo
It was important for him to believe that he'd spent his life among people who kept missing the point.
Don DeLillo
Somehow pictures always lead to people as masses. Books belong to individuals.
Don DeLillo
The world is shrinking into a kind of technological funnel. I think people are drawn into their technological devices, and this becomes a kind of subjective universe, into which much of the rest of the world simply does not enter.
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Popular culture is inescapable in the U.S. Why not use it?
Don DeLillo
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
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.
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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.
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There's a curious knot that binds novelists and terrorists...Years ago I used to think it was possible for a novelist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb-makers and gunmen have taken that territory. They make raids on human consciousness. What writers used to do before we were all incorporated.
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To be a tourist is to escape accountability.
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I think literature has lost it's power. Great novels continue to be written, but they are no longer changing the world.
Don DeLillo
First you look for discipline and control. You want to exercise your will, bend the language your way, bend the world your way. You want to control the flow of impulses, images, words, faces, ideas. But there's a higher place, a secret aspiration. You want to let go. You want to lose yourself in language, become a carrier or messenger.
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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
Why are homosexuals addicted to soap opera? Because our lives are a vivid situation.
Don DeLillo
You become a serious novelist by living long enough.
Don DeLillo
Ask yourself this question. Do we have to be humans forever? Consciousness is exhausted. Back now to inorganic matter. This is what we want. We want to be stones in a field.
Don DeLillo
The more things I threw away, the more I found.
Don DeLillo
Mirrors and images. Or sex and love. These are two separate systems that we miserably try to link.
Don DeLillo
Once you've seen the signs about the barn, it becomes impossible to see the barn.
Don DeLillo
