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Don DeLillo Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: November 20, 1936

Topics

Work Nature Silence Ideas Quiet

With writing, I love doing it, but there's that love-hate relationship: You're not having a good run, you've hit a wall; it's frustrating.

Love Good Relationship Writing Doing

I have never been a 'hair person.' Growing up, my mom and my sister, who loved to get their hair done, would always give me a hard time about not getting mine done.

Jessica Williams

Time Me Mom Sister Growing Up Hair

A good culture in a hospital can absorb and manage a few bad nurses, but once the culture becomes bad in itself, bad nursing practice is much harder to hide.

Good Culture Practice Bad Hide Once

We hoped against hope that what we had been doing was enough to prevent a riot. It was not enough.

Jerome Cavanagh

Hope Doing Enough Against Been Riot

I've made so many people angry that they kind of blur into one unpleasant memory of people staring at you with somewhere between passive aggression and active aggression.

Angry Memory People Blur You Kind

Every single lyric I've ever written I meant.

Single Every Ever Lyric Meant

With journalism, films always have to be to do with some personal statement of your own. As a general rule, I resist that. In the States, a question that kept coming up was this: 'How can you, as a man, talk about three women?'

Women Man You Journalism Personal

Around the holidays, or anytime I'm going on vacation, I try to bump up my cardio or lose a pound before leaving.

Vacation Holidays Lose Leaving Try

There's something that's very human about 'Warriorv that brings you out. You're watching the movie and, yeah, there's fighting - there's a tournament at the end of the movie - but it takes a long time to get to know these people.

Time People End Fighting Long You

We are still vulnerable to gender-targeted marketing no matter how carefully we edit our children's bookshelves.

Children Marketing Matter Still Edit

Sometimes it's hard to play someone so similar to you, because you can muddy the character. Often, it's easier to play someone further away from you, because it's clearer who they are.

Character Someone You Play Sometimes

It is still true that it is easier to compose a poem in the form of a manual for adjusting a VCR than it is to write a piece using just tuning as a symphony.

Brian Ferneyhough

True Write Poem Just Still Easier

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