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Don DeLillo Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Live Moral Will Right Out Force

Jack White is an extraordinary person because he's like a three-dimensional chess player. He thinks so far ahead.

White Person Chess Ahead Because He

I was lucky enough when it came to sports and work ethic to be taught some basics that continue to be important.

Work Sports Work Ethic Enough Lucky

And I'm in favor of that because I have a gay son, who's a very successful theater designer.

Son Gay Successful Because Favor

I've never had a very closely connected family. My parents split up when I was young and I was living with my mom for a little while, then I was kind of just on my own really young. It wasn't some kind of global tragedy, it was just never really a very close-knit family. So there was support in the sense that they didn't stand in my way.

Family Support Parents Mom Stand

What I do when I create a character is put in details from all the people I know who might be like that person, and then put in a huge amount of myself.

Jeffrey Eugenides

Character Myself People Details Know

Virginia Woolf's great novel, 'Mrs. Dalloway,' is the first great book I ever read. I read it almost by accident when I was in high school, when I was 15 years old.

Michael Cunningham

Great School Book High School High

From the moment we were first dumped in Jamestown and had our teeth checked before getting sold off and later considered three-fifths of a human being, an abundance of 'likability' hasn't been something blacks have had to stockpile. Instead, it's been a centuries-long battle for respectability.

Moment Battle Abundance Teeth First

I was doing without for so long, not knowing the things that are normal for musicians. I was getting bookings regardless, people phoning or emailing me direct, and journalists were writing about me anyway.

People Me Writing Musicians Doing

TV does not care about you or what happens to you. It's downright bad for your health now, and that's not a far-out concept. I think watching the TV news is bad for you. It is bad for your physical health and your mental health.

Health Think Care Mental Health You

Even if you're specific about the character of the song, it's more exciting to place them, juxtapose them in such a way as to make an adventure out of the sequence of the songs.

Character Adventure Song You Place

What we do as a society is seek simple answers.

Simple Society Answers Seek

A bachelor is a guy who never made the same mistake once.

Men Mistake Bachelor Never Same Guy

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