Don DeLillo
Don DeLillo
Donald Richard "Don" DeLillois an American novelist, playwright and essayist. 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, politics, economics, and global terrorism. Initially a well-regarded cult writer, the publication in 1985 of White Noise brought him widespread recognition. It was followed in 1988 by Libra, a bestseller. DeLillo has twice been a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction finalist), won the...
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth20 November 1936
CityBronx, NY
People think about who they are in the stillest hour of the night. I carry this thought, the child's mystery and terror of this thought, I feel this immensity in my soul every second of my life.
In fiction, I tend to write fairly realistic dialogue-not always, and it tends to vary from book to book. But in many books, there is a colloquialism of address. The characters will speak in a quite idiosyncratic way sometimes.
Even when you self-destruct, you want to fail more, lose more, die more than others, stink more than others.
Stories have no point if they don't absorb our terror.
the instant he knew he loved her, she slipped down his body and out of his arms
I never wanted to change the world.
I think if you maintain a force in the world that comes into people's sleep, you are exercising a meaningful power.
We're the last billionth of a second in the evolution of matter.
America can be saved only by what it's trying to destroy.
We commit our crimes at night and reveal ourselves in the high noon of studio lights.
The family is the cradle of the world's misinformation.
Ecology is boring for the same reason that destruction is fun.
To be a tourist is to escape accountability. Errors and failings don't cling to you the way they do back home. You're able to drift across continents and languages, suspending the operation of sound thought. Tourism is the march of stupidity.
We live in an age of rapid mass media, television, Internet. They determine our tempo, not books.