Quote

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

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Don DeLillo
Age: 87
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Don Delillo
Donald Richard DeLillo
Haven
Everything
Fiction
Done
Read
Work
Language
Think
Culture
Thinking
Comes
Dreamed
World
Imagined
Around
Havens
Ever

More quotes by Don DeLillo

Image
World is supposed to mean something that's self-contained. but nothing is self-contained.
Don DeLillo
Image
Why are homosexuals addicted to soap opera? Because our lives are a vivid situation.
Don DeLillo
Image
I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version.
Don DeLillo
Image
Do people still shoot at presidents? I thought there were more stimulating targets.' (20)
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
I like the construction of sentences and the juxtaposition of words-not just how they sound or what they mean, but even what they look like.
Don DeLillo
Image
I hate my life. I'm at the point where I want to hear about other people's lives. it's like switching from fiction to biography.
Don DeLillo
Image
I think if you maintain a force in the world that comes into people's sleep, you are exercising a meaningful power.
Don DeLillo
Image
I've never made an outline for any novel that I've written. Never.
Don DeLillo
Image
If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature. Lovely.
Don DeLillo
Image
I have only a bare working knowledge of the human brain but it's enough to make me proud to be an American.
Don DeLillo
Image
Dying was just an extended version of Ash Wednesday.
Don DeLillo
Image
Popular culture is inescapable in the U.S. Why not use it?
Don DeLillo
Image
Naturally a direct comparison of terrorist and novelist is complete nonsense. But there was once a time when the novelist also had some influence on how his contemporaries thought, the way they saw the world, the way they lived.
Don DeLillo
Image
In this century the writer has carried on a conversation with madness. We might almost say of the twentieth-century writer that he aspires to madness. Some have made it, of course, and they hold special places in our regard. To a writer, madness is a final distillation of self, a final editing down. It's the drowning out of false voices.
Don DeLillo
Image
The smoke alarm went off in the hallway upstairs, either to let us know the battery had just died or because the house was on fire.
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
If an idea seems to find its way towards a stage setting, that's the direction I take. I don't know if I'm trying to achieve anything other than to follow an idea on to the page.
Don DeLillo
Image
Just because it's on the radio doesn't mean we have to suspend belief in the evidence of our senses.
Don DeLillo
Image
Technology is lust removed from nature.
Don DeLillo