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A writer decides to follow some ideas and not others for reasons that aren't always clear to him. It's often a matter of intuition.

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Don DeLillo
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
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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.
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In fiction, I tend to write fairly realistic dialogue-not always, and it tends to vary from book to book. But in many books, there is a colloquialism of address. The characters will speak in a quite idiosyncratic way sometimes.
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Do people still shoot at presidents? I thought there were more stimulating targets.' (20)
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