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Don DeLillo
Don DeLillo
American Novelist
Born: Nov 20, 1936
Language Me People Think Will Work
Related authors: Elie Wiesel Ernest Hemingway H. P. Lovecraft James Baldwin John Updike Leo Rosten Nathaniel Hawthorne Richard Bach
It occured to me that eating is the only form of professionalism most people ever attain. Don DeLillo
Me People Eating Only Attain Most Form Professionalism Ever
Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there. Don DeLillo
Truth Waiting Every Finally Writer He Know Learns How End Gets Sentence
There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down. Don DeLillo
Time Nature Rain Fear First Down Between Period Always Curious Cracking Breeze
I quit my job just to quit. I didn't quit my job to write fiction. I just didn't want to work anymore. Don DeLillo
Work Job Write Quit Just Want Anymore Fiction
If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature. Lovely. Don DeLillo
Work You Perception Enjoy Liberating Would Writer Outside Dead How Were Being Literature Lovely Central Novel Margins
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. Don DeLillo
Men Other Secrets Drawn Tend Share Know Fellow Because Afflicted Want Company Each Need
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. Don DeLillo
Life Death Will Pain Live Way Introduction Minute He Idea Catholic His Die Any Eternity Certain Certain Way Now Raised
I embarked on my life - I didn't do anything. I don't have an explanation. Don DeLillo
Life My Life Embarked Anything Explanation
I slept for four years. I didn't study much of anything. I majored in something called communication arts. Don DeLillo
Communication Slept Something Study Years Arts Anything Much Four
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? Don DeLillo
Will Three Beginning Think Playwright Dimensions Only Finishes He Moves Happen After Script Working
I think there is a sense of last things in my work that probably comes from a Catholic childhood. Don DeLillo
Work Sense Think Catholic Childhood Things Last
I've always seen myself in sentences. I begin to recognize myself, word by word, as I work through a sentence. Don DeLillo
Work Myself Word Seen Recognize Through Always Begin Sentence Sentences
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. Don DeLillo
Society Only Writer Consumption Terror Glut Repetition Endless May Repressive Influential Meaningful Act Filled Deeply
In the face of technology, everything becomes a little atavistic. Don DeLillo
Technology Face Everything Becomes Little
People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power. Don DeLillo
People Power Secret Way Maintaining Make Arrangements Who Largely
Rushdie is a hostage. Don DeLillo
Hostage
The future belongs to crowds. Don DeLillo
Future Crowds Belongs
The language of my books has shaped me as a man. Don DeLillo
Me Man Language Books Shaped
There's a connection between the advances that are made in technology and the sense of primitive fear people develop in response to it. Don DeLillo
Technology People Fear Made Sense Response Develop Advances Between Primitive Connection
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. Don DeLillo
Vision Language Ways Structure Writers True Alter Narrative Terror Terrorist Infiltrate Used Aspire Deep Acts Consciousness
When you try to unravel something you've written, you belittle it in a way. It was created as a mystery. Don DeLillo
You Try Way Unravel Something Mystery Written Created Belittle
Writers in repressive societies are considered dangerous. That's why so many of them are in jail. Don DeLillo
Dangerous Considered Writers Jail Repressive Them Many Why Societies
Never underestimate the power of the State to act out its own massive fantasies. Don DeLillo
Power Own State Out Never Never Underestimate Underestimate Massive Fantasies Act
There's never a dearth of reasons to shoot at the President. Don DeLillo
President Never Dearth Shoot Reasons

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