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
Terror is now the world narrative, unquestionably. When those two buildings were struck, and when they collapsed, it was, in effect, an extraordinary blow to consciousness, and it changed everything.
Maybe when we die, the first thing we'll say is 'I know this feeling. I was here before'.
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 commit our crimes at night and reveal ourselves in the high noon of studio lights.
The world isn't going to be destroyed, but you don't feel safe anymore in your plane or train or office or auditorium.
Words are not necessary to one's experience of the true life.
We're the last billionth of a second in the evolution of matter.
Sex finds us. Sex sees through us. That's why it's so shattering. It strips us of appearances.
It takes close attention to see what is happening in front of you. It takes work, pious effort, to see what you are looking at.
I'm a novelist, period. An American novelist.
Popular culture is inescapable in the U.S. Why not use it?
A photograph is a universe of dots. The grain, the halide, the little silver things clumped in the emulsion. Once you get inside a dot, you gain access to hidden information, you slide into the smallest event. This is what technology does. It peels back the shadows and redeems the dazed and rumbling past. It makes reality come true.
There is no lie in war or preparation of war that can't be defended.
Say heat. Say wet between my legs. Say legs. Seriously, I want you to. Stockings. Whisper it. The word is meant to be whispered.