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
Clouds are no deterrent. Clouds intensify the drama, trap and shape the light.
Your brain has a trillion neurons and every neuron has ten thousand little dendrites. The system of inter-communication is awe-inspiring.
I've always felt that my subject was living in dangerous times.
What terrorists gain, novelists lose.
Time is a corporate asset now. It belongs to the free market system. The present is harder to find... The future becomes insistent.
The genius of the primitive mind is that it can render human helplessness in noble and beautiful ways.
If an idea seems to find its way towards a stage setting, that's the direction I take. I don't know if I'm trying to achieve anything other than to follow an idea on to the page.
The novel is the dream release, the suspension of reality that history needs to escape its own brutal confinements.
Plot a murder, you're saying. But every plot is a murder in effect. To plot is to die, whether we know it or not.
There were moments when she wasn't talking so much as fading into time, dropping back into some funnelled stretch of recent past.
That's what in theory differentiates a writer from everyone else. You see and hear more clearly.
I felt myself getting whiter... What does it mean to become white? How does it feel to see Death in the flesh, come to gather you in?
I see contemporary violence as a kind of sardonic response to the promise of consumer fulfilment in America...
War is the ultimate realization of modern technology.