Stories have no point if they don't absorb our terror. 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 moleculesrushingbrain 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 understandingfeelingsneeds 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 vacationrelaxpeople Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us. Don DeLillo formidentitywriting 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 endsliteraturewaiting 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 whitedoemean 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 naturefearsweet 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 threewritingbook Longing on a large scale makes history. Don DeLillo large-scalelongingscales 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 fluidforcesource 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 writingyearsthinking 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 perceptionghoulslove Any assault on the borders of perception is going to seem rash at first. Don DeLillo bordersperceptionfirsts holes are interesting. there are books about holes. Don DeLillo holesbookinteresting 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 waitingwritingbook If you know you're worth nothing, only a gamble with death can gratify your vanity. Don DeLillo gamblevanityknows 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 catremembermemories Before pop art, there was such a thing as bad taste. Now there's kitsch, schlock, camp, and porn. Don DeLillo kitschtasteart
