Don DeLillo

I like the construction of sentences and the juxtaposition of words-not just how they sound or what they mean, but even what they look like. ↗

— Don DeLillo

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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

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I slept for four years. I didn't study much of anything. I majored in something called communication arts. ↗

— Don DeLillo

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

— Don DeLillo

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I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version. ↗

— Don DeLillo

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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

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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

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It occured to me that eating is the only form of professionalism most people ever attain. ↗

— Don DeLillo

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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

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People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power. ↗

— Don DeLillo

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