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Past, present and future are not amenities of language. Time unfolds into the seamsof being. It passes through you, making and shaping.

Past, present and future are not amenities of language. Time unfolds into the seamsof being. It passes through you, making and shaping.

Don DeLillo
Past, Language, Amenities
Don DeLillo (2001). “The Body Artist: A Novel”, p.99, Simon and Schuster

In my experience, writing a novel tends to create its own structure, its own demands, its own language, its own ending.

Don DeLillo
Writing, Demand, Language
"Living in dangerous times". Interview with Kevin Nance, www.chicagotribune.com. October 12, 2012.

The language of my books has shaped me as a man.

Don DeLillo
Book, Men, Language
Don DeLillo (1992). “Mao II: A Novel”, p.48, Penguin

I'm very concerned with questions of language. This is what I think of when I think of myself as a writer: I'm someone who writes sentences and paragraphs. I think of the sentence - not only what it shares but, in a sense, what it looks like. I like to match words not only in a way that convey a meaning, possibly an indirect meaning, but even at times words that have a kind of visual correspondence.

Don DeLillo
Writing, Thinking, Language
"Living in dangerous times". Interview with Kevin Nance, articles.chicagotribune.com. October 12, 2012.

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