Don DeLillo quotes - page 5

The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence. (Don DeLillo)
I saw a photograph of a wedding conducted by Reverend Moon of the Unification Church. I wanted to understand this event, and the only way to understand it was to write about it. View quote
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Stories are consoling, fiction is one of the consolation prizes for having lived in the world. View quote
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I watch movies occasionally, and I watch documentaries. Virtually nothing else. View quote
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I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism. View quote
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I embarked on my life - I didn't do anything. I don't have an explanation. View quote
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America was and is the immigrant's dream. View quote
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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. View quote
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Hardship makes the world obscure. View quote
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When I work, I'm just translating the world around me in what seems to be straightforward terms. For my readers, this is sometimes a vision that's not familiar. But I'm not trying to manipulate reality. This is just what I see and hear. View quote
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How many beginnings before you see the lies in your excitement? (Don DeLillo)
I think a playwright realizes after he finishes working on the script that this is only the beginning. What will happen when it moves into three dimensions? View quote
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I think there is a sense of last things in my work that probably comes from a Catholic childhood. View quote
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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. View quote
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People will always make comparisons. View quote
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Rushdie is a hostage. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I think what'll happen in the not-too-distant future is that we'll have humane wars. View quote
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Maybe when we die, the first thing we'll say is, 'I know this feeling. I was here before. View quote
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sex finds us. sex sees through us. that's why it's so shattering. it strips us of appearances."_Eric Packer. (Don DeLillo)
That which we fear to touch is often the very fabric of our salvation. View quote
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Every disaster made us wish for something bigger, grander, more sweeping. View quote
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The nonbelievers need the believers. They are desperate to have someone believe." "As belief shrinks from the world, people find it more necessary than ever that someone believe... Those who have abandoned belief must still believe in us. They are sure that they are right not to believe but they know belief must not fade completely. Hell is when no one believes. View quote
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I had centered myself, learning of the existence of an interior motion, a shift in the levels from isolation to solitude to wordlessness to immobility. When Opel occupied that center I became the thing that swirled. View quote
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