Quotes By Don DeLillo

Writers in repressive societies are considered dangerous. That's why so many of them are in jail.

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.

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?

In the face of technology, everything becomes a little atavistic.

I think there is a sense of last things in my work that probably comes from a Catholic childhood.

There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.

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

I've always seen myself in sentences. I begin to recognize myself, word by word, as I work through a sentence.

The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence.

There's never a dearth of reasons to shoot at the President.

America was and is the immigrant's dream.

I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.

People will always make comparisons.

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.

Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there.