Don DeLillo Quotes - Page 10

I embarked on my life - I didn't do anything. I don't have an explanation.

Rushdie is a hostage.

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?

I've always liked being relatively obscure. I feel that's where I belong, that's where my work belongs.

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.

One connection I see between novelists and terrorists is that we both attempt to alter consciousness.

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.

In cities no one notices specific dying. Dying is a quality of the air. It's everywhere and nowhere.

The genius of the primitive mind is that it can render human helplessness in noble and beautiful ways.

Time is a corporate asset now. It belongs to the free market system. The present is harder to find... The future becomes insistent.

Fame requires every kind of excess. I mean true fame, a devouring neon, not the sombre renown of waning statesmen or chinless kings.

There were moments when she wasn't talking so much as fading into time, dropping back into some funnelled stretch of recent past.

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.

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.

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.

I hate my life. I'm at the point where I want to hear about other people's lives. it's like switching from fiction to biography.

In a crisis the true facts are whatever other people say they are.

Everything I've stated may prove to be total poppycock.... Perhaps time will tell. Perhaps time will do nothing of the kind.

Digital clocks took the 'space' out of time.

Man's guilt in history and in the tides of his own blood has been complicated by technology, the daily seeping falsehearted death.

The question of dying becomes a wise reminder. It cures us of our innocence of the future.

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.

A dead afternoon in a dark bar was not the worst of fates.

The novel is the dream release, the suspension of reality that history needs to escape its own brutal confinements.

Music is dangerous in so many ways. It's the most dangerous thing in the world.