Don DeLillo Quotes about Culture

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People will not die. Isn't this the creed of the new culture? People will be absorbed in streams of information. I know nothing about this. Computers will die. They're dying in their present form. They're just about

People will not die. Isn't this the creed of the new culture? People will be absorbed in streams of information. I know nothing about this. Computers will die. They're dying in their present form. They're just about dead as distinct units.

Don DeLillo

People, Dying, Culture

Don DeLillo (2011). “Cosmopolis”, p.86, Pan Macmillan

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, Culture, Use

Don DeLillo, Thomas DePietro (2005). “Conversations with Don DeLillo”, p.88, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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

Thinking, Culture, Fiction

"Exile on Main Street: Don DeLillo's Undisclosed Underworld". David Remnick, The New Yorker, September 15, 1997.