Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work. - Don DeLillo Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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I've always seen myself in sentences. I begin to recognize myself, word by word, as I work through a sentence. - Don DeLillo Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
To be a tourist is to escape accountability. Errors and failings don't cling to you the way they do back home. You're able to drift across continents and languages, suspending the operation of sound thought. Tourism is the march of stupidity. - Don DeLillo Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence. - Don DeLillo Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
America is the world's living myth. There's no sense of wrong when you kill an American or blame America for some local disaster. This is our function, to be character types, to embody recurring themes that people can use to comfort themselves, justify themselves and so on. We're here to accommodate. Whatever people need, we provide. A myth is a useful thing. - Don DeLillo Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
We start our lives in chaos, in babble. As we surge up into the world, we try to devise a shape, a plan. There is dignity in this. Your whole life is a plot, a scheme, a diagram. It is a failed scheme but that's not the point. To plot is to affirm life, to seek shape and control. Even after death, most particularly after death, the search continues. Burial rites are an attempt to complete the scheme, in ritual. Picture a state funeral. It is all precision, detail, order, design. The nation holds its breath. The efforts of a huge and powerful government are brought to bear on a ceremony that will shed the last trace of chaos. If all geos well, if they bring it off, some natural law of perfection is obeyed. The nation is delivered from anxiety, the deceased's life is redeemed, life itself is strengthened, reaffirmed. - Don DeLillo Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
I've always liked being relatively obscure. I feel that's where I belong, that's where my work belongs. - Don DeLillo Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
When you try to unravel something you've written, you belittle it in a way. It was created as a mystery. - Don DeLillo Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
True terror is a language and a vision. There is a deep narrative structure to terrorist acts, and they infiltrate and alter consciousness in ways that writers used to aspire to. - Don DeLillo Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Years ago I used to think it was possible for a novelist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb-makers and gunman have taken that territory. They make raids on human consciousness. What writers used to do before we were all incorporated. - Don DeLillo Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Film is more than the twentieth-century art. It's another part of the twentieth-century mind. It's the world seen from inside. We've come to a certain point in the history of film. If a thing can be filmed, the film is implied in the thing itself. This is where we are. The twentieth century is on film. You have to ask yourself if there's anything about us more important than the fact that we're constantly on film, constantly watching ourselves. - Don DeLillo Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
I watch movies occasionally, and I watch documentaries. Virtually nothing else. - Don DeLillo Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Thousands stand and chant. Around them in the world, people ride escalators going up and sneak secret glances at the faces coming down. People dangle teabags over hot water in white cups. Cars run silently on the autobahns, streaks of painted light. People sit at desks and stare at office walls. They smell their shirts and drop them in the hamper. People bind themselves into numbered seats and fly across time zones and high cirrus and deep night, knowing there is something they've forgotten to do. - Don DeLillo Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
One connection I see between novelists and terrorists is that we both attempt to alter consciousness. - Don DeLillo Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
The future belongs to crowds. - Don DeLillo Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
One truth is the swing of the sentence, the beat and poise, but down deeper it's the integrity of the writer as he matches with the language. - Don DeLillo Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us. In the end, writers will write not to be outlaw heroes of some underculture but mainly to save themselves, to survive as individuals. - Don DeLillo Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
People stress the violence. That's the smallest part of it. Football is brutal only from a distance. In the middle of it there's a calm, a tranquility. The players accept pain. There's a sense of order even at the end of a running play with bodies strewn everywhere. When the systems interlock, there's a satisfaction to the game that can't be duplicated. There's a harmony. - Don DeLillo Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version. - Don DeLillo Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
I think it's only in a crisis that Americans see other people. It has to be an American crisis, of course. If two countries fight that do not supply the Americans with some precious commodity, then the education of the public does not take place. - Don DeLillo Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
For me, writing is a concentrated form of thinking. - Don DeLillo Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
I slept for four years. I didn't study much of anything. I majored in something called communication arts. - Don DeLillo Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Don't you realize that as long as you have to sit down to pee, you'll never be a dominant force in the world You'll never be a convincing technocrat or middle manager. Because people will know. She's in there sitting down. - Don DeLillo Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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