I've always liked being relatively obscure. I feel that's where I belong, that's where my work belongs. Don DeLillo More Quotes by Don DeLillo More Quotes From Don DeLillo Everything that goes on in your whole life is a result of molecules rushing around somewhere in your brain. Don DeLillo molecules rushing brain These are the days after. Everything now is measured by after. Don DeLillo If you reveal everything, bare every feeling, ask for understanding, you lose something crucial to your sense of yourself. You need to know things that others don't know. It's what no one knows about you that allows you to know yourself. Don DeLillo understanding feelings needs That's why people take vacations. No to relax or find excitement or see new places. To escape the death that exists in routine things. Don DeLillo vacation relax people Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us. Don DeLillo form identity writing I'm not reclusive at all. Just private. Don DeLillo 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 ends literature waiting I felt myself getting whiter... What does it mean to become white? How does it feel to see Death in the flesh, come to gather you in? Don DeLillo white doe mean 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 nature fear sweet It's my contention that each book creates its own structure and its own length. I've written three or four slim books. It may be that the next novel is a big one, but I don't know. Don DeLillo three writing book Longing on a large scale makes history. Don DeLillo large-scale longing scales Human existence had to have a deeper source than our own dank fluids. Dank or rank. There had to be a force behind it, a principal being who was and is and ever shall be. Don DeLillo fluid force source It was only after two years' work that it occurred to me that I was a writer. I had no particular expectation that the novel would ever be published, because it was sort of a mess. It was only when I found myself writing things I didn't realise I knew that I said, 'I'm a writer now.' The novel had become an incentive to deeper thinking. That's really what writing is—an intense form of thought. Don DeLillo writing years thinking 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 perception ghouls love Any assault on the borders of perception is going to seem rash at first. Don DeLillo borders perception firsts holes are interesting. there are books about holes. Don DeLillo holes book interesting In my experience, writing a novel tends to create its own structure, its own demands, its own language, its own ending. So for much of the period in which I'm writing, I'm waiting to understand what's going to happen next, and how and where it's going to happen. In some cases, fairly early in the process, I do know how a book will end. But most of the time, not at all, and in this particular case, many questions are still unanswered, even though I've been working for months. Don DeLillo waiting writing book If you know you're worth nothing, only a gamble with death can gratify your vanity. Don DeLillo gamble vanity knows One of my earliest memories as a reader - I don't know how old I was, quite young - was a poem of his, called "Fog," and I remember the first verse, "The fog comes / on little cat feet". Don DeLillo cat remember memories Before pop art, there was such a thing as bad taste. Now there's kitsch, schlock, camp, and porn. Don DeLillo kitsch taste art
