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Don DeLillo (49)

Birth:	20th November, 1936
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Essayist, Novelist, Writer, Playwriter

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Don DeLillo is an American essayist, novelist, playwright, and short story writer. His works have covered subjects as diverse as television, nuclear war, sports, the complexities of language, performance art, the Cold War, mathematics, the advent of the digital age, and global terrorism.

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• The true life is not reducible to words spoken or written, not by anyone, ever.

  Don DeLillo

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Writing

• The power of the dead is that we think they see us all the time. The dead have a presence. Is there a level of energy composed solely of the dead? They are also in the ground, of course, asleep and crumbling. Perhaps we are what they dream.

  Don DeLillo

  Topics in Death, Power

• No sense of the irony of human experience, that we are the highest form of life on earth, and yet ineffably sad because we know what no other animal knows, that we must die.

  Don DeLillo

  Topics in Death, Experience, Love
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  Sometimes a thing that’s hard is hard because you’re doing it wrong.

  Don DeLillo

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Wrong, Thing, Hard

• Writers in repressive societies are considered dangerous. That’s why so many of them are in jail.

  Don DeLillo

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

  Don DeLillo

• 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.

  Don DeLillo

• There’s never a dearth of reasons to shoot at the President.

  Don DeLillo

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

  Don DeLillo

• There’s a connection between the advances that are made in technology and the sense of primitive fear people develop in response to it.

  Don DeLillo

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

  Don DeLillo

• The modern meaning of life’s end-when does it end? How does it end? How should it end? What is the value of life? How do we measure it?

  Don DeLillo

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

  Don DeLillo

• The future belongs to crowds.

  Don DeLillo

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

  Don DeLillo

• Rushdie is a hostage.

  Don DeLillo

• People will always make comparisons.

  Don DeLillo

• 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.

  Don DeLillo

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

  Don DeLillo

• 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.

  Don DeLillo