You shout because it makes you brave or you want to announce your recklessness. Don DeLillo More Quotes by Don DeLillo More Quotes From Don DeLillo I see contemporary violence as a kind of sardonic response to the promise of consumer fulfilment in America. Don DeLillo violence america promise I've always liked being relatively obscure. I feel that's where I belong, that's where my work belongs. Don DeLillo obscure literature feels When my head is in the typewriter the last thing on my mind is some imaginary reader. I don't have an audience; I have a set of standards. Don DeLillo lasts typewriters mind Rushdie is a hostage. Don DeLillo rushdie hostage People will always make comparisons. Don DeLillo comparison people One truth is the swing of the sentence, the beat and poise, but down deeper it's the integrity of the writer as he matches with the language. Don DeLillo swings literature integrity 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. Don DeLillo independence use culture Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. It´s a settling of grievances between the present and the past. Don DeLillo rage nostalgia past The best moments involve a loss of control. It's a kind of rapture, and it can happen with words and phrases fairly often - completely surprising combinations that make a higher kind of sense, that come to you out of nowhere. But rarely for extended periods, for paragraphs and pages - I think poets must have more access to this state than novelists do. Don DeLillo novelists loss thinking Clouds are no deterrent. Clouds intensify the drama, trap and shape the light. Don DeLillo light clouds drama I understand there are some men who are only half here. Let's not say men. Let's say people. People who are more or less obscure at times. Don DeLillo half men people Plot a murder, you're saying. But every plot is a murder in effect. To plot is to die, whether we know it or not. Don DeLillo effects murder plot If the world is where we hide from ourselves, what do we do when the world is no longer accessible? We invent a false name, invent a destiny, purchase a firearm through the mail. Don DeLillo destiny names world Why are homosexuals addicted to soap opera? Because our lives are a vivid situation. Don DeLillo soap opera vivid There are no amateurs in the world of children. Don DeLillo children world Something is always happening, even on the quietest days and deep into the night, if you stand a while and look. Don DeLillo happenings night looks A mystery novel localizes the awesome force of the real death outside the book, winds it tightly in a plot. Don DeLillo real wind book I think fiction comes from everything you've ever done, and said, and dreamed, and imagined. It comes from everything you've read and haven't read... I think my work comes out of the culture of the world around me. I think that's where my language comes from. Don DeLillo culture fiction thinking Capital burns off the nuance in a culture. Foreign investment, global markets, corporate acquisitions, the flow of information through transnational media, the attenuating influence of money that's electronic and sex that's cyberspaced, untouched money and computer-safe sex, the convergence of consumer desire--not that people want the same things, necessarily, but that they want the same range of choices. Don DeLillo media sex people I think there is a sense of last things in my work that probably comes from a Catholic childhood. Don DeLillo childhood catholic thinking
