Don DeLillo Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“A Catholic is raised with the idea that he will die any minute now and if he doesn't live his life in a certain way, this death is an introduction to an eternity of pain.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“There's a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the writer's will to live.”

“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.”

“American writers ought to stand and live in the margins, and be more dangerous.”

“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.”

“I watch movies occasionally, and I watch documentaries. Virtually nothing else.”