American - Novelist | November 20, 1936 -
I think there is a sense of last things in my work that probably comes from a Catholic childhood.
Don DeLillo
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I watch movies occasionally, and I watch documentaries. Virtually nothing else.
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I've always seen myself in sentences. I begin to recognize myself, word by word, as I work through a sentence.
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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.
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In the face of technology, everything becomes a little atavistic.
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It's no accident that my first novel was called Americana. This was a private declaration of independence, a statement of my intention to use the whole picture, the whole culture.
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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.
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People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power.
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People who are powerless make an open theater of violence.
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People will always make comparisons.
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Rushdie is a hostage.
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Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work.
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