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I am not comfortable with abstract writing, stories that look like essays: you have to see, I need to see.

Don DeLillo

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Don DeLillo
Age: 87
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
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I didn’t do anything. I don’t have an explanation, I don’t know why I wanted to write. I did some short stories at that time, but very infrequently. I quit my job just to quit. I didn’t quit my job to write fiction. I just didn’t want to work anymore
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