Quote

To a writer, madness is a final distillation of self, a final editing down. It's the drowning out of false voices.

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
Madness
False
Writer
Distillation
Voice
Drowning
Self
Editing
Voices
Final
Finals

More quotes by Don DeLillo

Image
When I read obituaries I always note the age of the deceased. Automatically I relate this figure to my own age. Four years to go, I think. Nine more years. Two years and I'm dead. The power of numbers is never more evident than when we use them to speculate on the time of our dying.
Don DeLillo
Image
I'm a novelist, period. An American novelist.
Don DeLillo
Image
Something lurked inside the truth.
Don DeLillo
Image
Somehow pictures always lead to people as masses. Books belong to individuals.
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
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
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
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
Insanity's so personal. It's hard to know who shares our secrets.
Don DeLillo
Image
I marched and I protested against the war in Vietnam, along with many, many thousands of others. But I never quite understood the bombs that were placed in science labs or office buildings.
Don DeLillo
Image
You become a serious novelist by living long enough.
Don DeLillo
Image
Words are not necessary to one's experience of the true life.
Don DeLillo
Image
People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power.
Don DeLillo
Image
Technology is lust removed from nature.
Don DeLillo
Image
Sex finds us. Sex sees through us. That's why it's so shattering. It strips us of appearances.
Don DeLillo
Image
You gave yourself away, word by word, every time you opened your trap to speak.
Don DeLillo
Image
My attitudes aren't directed toward characters at all. I don't feel sympathetic toward some characters, unsympathetic toward others. I don't love some characters, feel contempt for others. They have attitudes I don't.
Don DeLillo
Image
I never wanted to change the world. Norman Mailer wanted to, he set himself the task of changing the consciousness of our age. And I think he came pretty close, in the 1960s, to actually managing to do it. But me? No, no, I never wanted anything like that. I'm not Maileresque.
Don DeLillo
Image
The less there was to see, the harder he looked, the more he saw. (Point Omega)
Don DeLillo
Image
The family is the cradle of the world's misinformation.
Don DeLillo