Don DeLillo Way Quotations

When you try to unravel something you've written, you belittle it in a way. It was created as a mystery.

I felt Joyce was an influence on my fiction, but in a very general way, as a kind of inspiration and a model for the beauty of language.

A writer takes earnest measures to secure his solitude and then finds endless ways to squander it.

Music is dangerous in so many ways. It's the most dangerous thing in the world.

We surrounded ourselves with smoke and loud noise. That's the way we chose to live. I'm prepared to defend it.

Writers, some of us, may tend to see things before other people do, things that are right there but aren't noticed in the way that a writer might notice.

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.

He wanted paper and something to write with, some way to sustain a thought, to place it in the world.

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.