Don DeLillo Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

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

“Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work.”

“Hardship makes the world obscure.”

“May the days be aimless. Do not advance action according to a plan.”

“I like the construction of sentences and the juxtaposition of words-not just how they sound or what they mean, but even what they look like.”

“I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version.”

“Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.”

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

“For me, writing is a concentrated form of thinking.”