Quote

I see contemporary violence as a kind of sardonic response to the promise of consumer fulfilment in America.

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
Contemporary
Response
Promise
Violence
America
Sardonic
Kind
Fulfilment
Consumer
Consumers

More quotes by Don DeLillo

Image
A person rises on a word and falls on a syllable.
Don DeLillo
Image
Somehow pictures always lead to people as masses. Books belong to individuals.
Don DeLillo
Image
If you reveal everything, bare every feeling, ask for understanding, you lose something crucial to your sense of yourself. You need to know things that others don't know. It's what no one knows about you that allows you to know yourself.
Don DeLillo
Image
The family was an art ... and the dinner table was the place it found expression.
Don DeLillo
Image
Popular culture is inescapable in the U.S. Why not use it?
Don DeLillo
Image
You have to break through the structure of your own stonework habit just to make yourself listen.
Don DeLillo
Image
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
Don DeLillo
Image
You become a serious novelist by living long enough.
Don DeLillo
Image
In the face of technology, everything becomes a little atavistic.
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
No sense of the irony of human experience, that we are the highest form of life on earth, and yet ineffably sad because we know what no other animal knows, that we must die.
Don DeLillo
Image
In these night recitations we create a space between things as we felt them at the time and as we speak them now. This is the space reserved for irony, sympathy and fond amusement, the means by which we rescue ourselves from the past.
Don DeLillo
Image
What we are reluctant to touch often seems the very fabric of our salvation.
Don DeLillo
Image
Once you've seen the signs about the barn, it becomes impossible to see the barn.
Don DeLillo
Image
We commit our crimes at night and reveal ourselves in the high noon of studio lights.
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
The genius of rock music is that it matched the cultural hysteria around it.
Don DeLillo
Image
I would never write in response to what I believe the public wanted or needed.
Don DeLillo
Image
The modern meaning of life's end-when does it end? How does it end? How should it end? What is the value of life? How do we measure it?
Don DeLillo
Image
To a writer, madness is a final distillation of self, a final editing down. It's the drowning out of false voices.
Don DeLillo