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Don DeLillo Quotes

American - Novelist | November 20, 1936 -

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.

Work Perception Literature Enjoy You

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.

Men Secrets Know Want Need Company

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.

Life Live Death Pain Die Way

American writers ought to stand and live in the margins, and be more dangerous.

Live Stand American Dangerous More

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

Truth Waiting End Know Writer He

For me, writing is a concentrated form of thinking.

Me Writing Thinking Form

I embarked on my life - I didn't do anything. I don't have an explanation.

Life My Life Anything Explanation

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.

Beauty Influence Language Kind Way

I like the construction of sentences and the juxtaposition of words-not just how they sound or what they mean, but even what they look like.

Construction Look Sound Mean Just

I quit my job just to quit. I didn't quit my job to write fiction. I just didn't want to work anymore.

Work Job Want Quit Write Fiction

I saw a photograph of a wedding conducted by Reverend Moon of the Unification Church. I wanted to understand this event, and the only way to understand it was to write about it.

Moon Church Wedding Understand Way

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

Communication Study Years Anything

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