Quote

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

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
Others
Sympathetic
Character
Attitudes
Feel
Directed
Feels
Contempt
Love
Characters
Toward
Aren
Attitude
Unsympathetic

More quotes by 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
Stories are consoling, fiction is one of the consolation prizes for having lived in the world.
Don DeLillo
Image
To be a tourist is to escape accountability.
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
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
There is a world inside the world.
Don DeLillo
Image
The family is the cradle of the world's misinformation.
Don DeLillo
Image
the instant he knew he loved her, she slipped down his body and out of his arms
Don DeLillo
Image
You have to break through the structure of your own stonework habit just to make yourself listen.
Don DeLillo
Image
Fear is self-awareness raised to a higher level.
Don DeLillo
Image
Everything is barely weeks. Everything is days. We have minutes to live.
Don DeLillo
Image
It was important for him to believe that he'd spent his life among people who kept missing the point.
Don DeLillo
Image
Somehow pictures always lead to people as masses. Books belong to individuals.
Don DeLillo
Image
The dead have a presence.
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
In the face of technology, everything becomes a little atavistic.
Don DeLillo
Image
I think fiction comes from everything you've ever done, and said, and dreamed, and imagined. It comes from everything you've read and haven't read... I think my work comes out of the culture of the world around me. I think that's where my language comes from.
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
I think that the massive, overarching, interconnected systems of technology tend to make us a little insecure, somewhat pliable, and susceptible to half-beliefs.
Don DeLillo
Image
Fame and secrecy are the high and low ends of the same fascination.
Don DeLillo