Quote

Words are not necessary to one's experience of the true life.

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
True
Life
Necessary
Words
Experience

More quotes by Don DeLillo

Image
America can be saved only by what it's trying to destroy.
Don DeLillo
Image
Something is always happening, even on the quietest days and deep into the night, if you stand a while and look.
Don DeLillo
Image
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
Image
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.
Don DeLillo
Image
Human existence had to have a deeper source than our own dank fluids. Dank or rank. There had to be a force behind it, a principal being who was and is and ever shall be.
Don DeLillo
Image
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
Image
How many beginnings before you see the lies in your excitement?
Don DeLillo
Image
A photograph is a universe of dots. The grain, the halide, the little silver things clumped in the emulsion. Once you get inside a dot, you gain access to hidden information, you slide into the smallest event. This is what technology does. It peels back the shadows and redeems the dazed and rumbling past. It makes reality come true.
Don DeLillo
Image
Time is a corporate asset now. It belongs to the free market system. The present is harder to find... The future becomes insistent.
Don DeLillo
Image
I've got death inside me. It's just a question of whether or not I can outlive it.
Don DeLillo
Image
America was and is the immigrant's dream.
Don DeLillo
Image
And what's the point of waking up in the morning if you don't try to match the enormousness of the known forces in the world with something powerful in your own life?
Don DeLillo
Image
The family was an art ... and the dinner table was the place it found expression.
Don DeLillo
Image
To be a tourist is to escape accountability.
Don DeLillo
Image
Everything is barely weeks. Everything is days. We have minutes to live.
Don DeLillo
Image
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.
Don DeLillo
Image
The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence.
Don DeLillo
Image
There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.
Don DeLillo
Image
A writer takes earnest measures to secure his solitude and then finds endless ways to squander it.
Don DeLillo
Image
Too much has been forgotten in the name of memory.
Don DeLillo