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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
In a repressive society, a writer can be deeply influential, but in a society that's filled with glut and repetition and endless consumption, the act of terror may be the only meaningful act.
Don DeLillo
In the face of technology, everything becomes a little atavistic.
Don DeLillo
It occured to me that eating is the only form of professionalism most people ever attain.
Don DeLillo
It's no accident that my first novel was called Americana. This was a private declaration of independence, a statement of my intention to use the whole picture, the whole culture.
Don DeLillo
May the days be aimless. Do not advance action according to a plan.
Don DeLillo
Men with secrets tend to be drawn to each other, not because they want to share what they know but because they need the company of the like-minded, the fellow afflicted.
Don DeLillo
Never underestimate the power of the State to act out its own massive fantasies.
Don DeLillo
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
People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power.
Don DeLillo
People who are powerless make an open theater of violence.
Don DeLillo
People will always make comparisons.
Don DeLillo
Rushdie is a hostage.
Don DeLillo
Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work.
Don DeLillo
The future belongs to crowds.
Don DeLillo
The language of my books has shaped me as a man.
Don DeLillo
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
The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence.
Don DeLillo
There's a connection between the advances that are made in technology and the sense of primitive fear people develop in response to it.
Don DeLillo
There's a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the writer's will to live.
Don DeLillo
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