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Don DeLillo Quotes about Literature

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Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there.

Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there.

Waiting, Literature, Ends

Don DeLillo (2016). “Mao II”, p.34, Pan Macmillan

There's a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the writer's will to live.

Literature, Moral, Speak

Don DeLillo, Thomas DePietro (2005). “Conversations with Don DeLillo”, p.82, Univ. Press of Mississippi

People who are powerless make an open theater of violence.

Power, People, Literature

Don DeLillo, Thomas DePietro (2005). “Conversations with Don DeLillo”, p.84, Univ. Press of Mississippi

Never underestimate the power of the State to act out its own massive fantasies.

Literature, Fantasy, Underestimate

The future belongs to crowds.

Future, Literature, Crowds

Don DeLillo, Thomas DePietro (2005). “Conversations with Don DeLillo”, p.101, Univ. Press of Mississippi

Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work.

Ideas, Silence, Literature

Don DeLillo, Thomas DePietro (2005). “Conversations with Don DeLillo”, p.4, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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.

Integrity, Swings, Literature

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

The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence.

Independent, Literature, Influence

Don DeLillo, Thomas DePietro (2005). “Conversations with Don DeLillo”, p.45, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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

Literature, Obscure, Feels

Don DeLillo, Thomas DePietro (2005). “Conversations with Don DeLillo”, p.77, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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

Reality, Literature, Sentences

Don DeLillo, Thomas DePietro (2005). “Conversations with Don DeLillo”, p.82, Univ. Press of Mississippi

When you try to unravel something you've written, you belittle it in a way. It was created as a mystery.

Trying, Literature, Way

Don DeLillo, Thomas DePietro (2005). “Conversations with Don DeLillo”, p.75, Univ. Press of Mississippi

True terror is a language and a vision. There is a deep narrative structure to terrorist acts, and they infiltrate and alter consciousness in ways that writers used to aspire to.

Narrative Structure, Vision, Literature

Don DeLillo, Thomas DePietro (2005). “Conversations with Don DeLillo”, p.84, Univ. Press of Mississippi

America was and is the immigrant's dream.

Dream, America, Literature

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

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.

Meaningful, Literature, May

Don DeLillo, Thomas DePietro (2005). “Conversations with Don DeLillo”, p.84, Univ. Press of Mississippi

I think literature has lost it's power. Great novels continue to be written, but they are no longer changing the world.

Thinking, Literature, World

"I don't know America anymore". Interview with Christoph Amend, Georg Diez, perival.com. October 11, 2007.

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