Don DeLillo

Don DeLillo

Don DeLillo (born November 20, 1936) is an American writer of novels, short stories, plays and essays.

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I felt Joyce was an influence on my fiction, but in a very general way, as a kind of inspiration and a model for the beauty of language.

Tags: Used, Turn, Lipstick

Don DeLillo

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

Tags: Anything, Study, Four

Don DeLillo

A Catholic is raised with the idea that he will die any minute now and if he doesn't live his life in a certain way, this death is an introduction to an eternity of pain.

Tags: Him, Put, Afraid

Don DeLillo

I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.

Tags: Change, Art, Ridiculous

Don DeLillo

I watch movies occasionally, and I watch documentaries. Virtually nothing else.

Tags: Love, Big, Last

Don DeLillo

There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.

Tags: Best, Art, Land

Don DeLillo

People who are powerless make an open theater of violence.

Tags: Violence, Open, Theater

Don DeLillo

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

Tags: Believe, Anything, Sell

Don DeLillo

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

Tags: Believe, Higher

Don DeLillo

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.

Tags: May, Act, Writer

Don DeLillo

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