Quotes by Delillo, Don




Don DeLillo (born November 20, 1936) is an American author best known for his novels, which paint detailed portraits of American life in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. He currently lives in New York City..

"Hardship makes the world obscure."

Delillo, Don on difficulties    Share


"If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature. Lovely."

Delillo, Don on fiction    Share

"The figure of the gunman in the window was inextricable from the victim and his history. This sustained Oswald in his cell. It gave him what he needed to live. The more time he spent in a cell, the stronger he would get. Everybody knew who he was now."

Delillo, Don on assassination    Share

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

Delillo, Don on rain
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"Men with secrets tend to be drawn to each other, not because they want to share what they know but because they need the company of the like-minded, the fellow afflicted."

Delillo, Don on secrets
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"Don't you realize that as long as you have to sit down to pee, you'll never be a dominant force in the world? You'll never be a convincing technocrat or middle manager. Because people will know. She's in there sitting down."

Delillo, Don on women
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