Quote

You gave yourself away, word by word, every time you opened your trap to speak.

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
Time
Trap
Traps
Opened
Gave
Word
Speak
Away
Every

More quotes by Don DeLillo

Image
I'm a novelist, period. An American novelist.
Don DeLillo
Image
It is all falling indelibly into the past.
Don DeLillo
Image
Sometimes I see something so moving I know I’m not supposed to linger. See it and leave. If you stay too long, you wear out the wordless shock. Love it and trust it and leave.
Don DeLillo
Image
A Catholic is raised with the idea that he will die any minute now and if he doesn't live his life in a certain way, this death is an introduction to an eternity of pain.
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
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
Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. It´s a settling of grievances between the present and the past.
Don DeLillo
Image
There were moments when she wasn't talking so much as fading into time, dropping back into some funnelled stretch of recent past.
Don DeLillo
Image
The power of the dead is that we think they see us all the time. The dead have a presence. Is there a level of energy composed solely of the dead? They are also in the ground, of course, asleep and crumbling. Perhaps we are what they dream.
Don DeLillo
Image
Everything is barely weeks. Everything is days. We have minutes to live.
Don DeLillo
Image
I've always felt that my subject was living in dangerous times.
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
You have to break through the structure of your own stonework habit just to make yourself listen.
Don DeLillo
Image
Everything that goes on in your whole life is a result of molecules rushing around somewhere in your brain.
Don DeLillo
Image
Before pop art, there was such a thing as bad taste. Now there's kitsch, schlock, camp, and porn.
Don DeLillo
Image
If an idea seems to find its way towards a stage setting, that's the direction I take. I don't know if I'm trying to achieve anything other than to follow an idea on to the page.
Don DeLillo
Image
People think about who they are in the stillest hour of the night. I carry this thought, the child's mystery and terror of this thought, I feel this immensity in my soul every second of my life.
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 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
Image
... there was an honesty inherent in bulkiness if it is just the right amount.
Don DeLillo