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
Hardship makes the world obscure.
Fame and secrecy are the high and low ends of the same fascination.
Out of some persistent sense of large-scale ruin, we kept inventing hope.
We don't really know how technology will affect narrative. That's the question. See, people used to say that the novel is going to die, but they would never say that movies will die with it, when in fact all forms depend on the narrative. I think if one of them fails, the others are going to fail as well. Maybe this will happen to both forms, and maybe movies will take a totally different direction with fiction.
I was never either pro-culture or counter-culture. I was in a kind of middle state.
Everything is barely weeks. Everything is days. We have minutes to live.
Stories are consoling, fiction is one of the consolation prizes for having lived in the world.
There's something nearly mystical about certain words and phrases that float through our lives. It's computer mysticism. Words that are computer generated to be used on products that might be sold anywhere from Japan to Denmark - words devised to be pronounceable in a hundred languages. And when you detach one of these words from the product it was designed to serve, the words acquires a chantlike quality.
He said, "The word for moonlight is moonlight.
The genius of rock music is that it matched the cultural hysteria around it.
I watch movies occasionally, and I watch documentaries. Virtually nothing else.
Technology and violence are interdependent.
This is the whole point of technology. It creates an appetite for immortality on the one hand. It threatens universal extinction on the other. Technology is lust removed from nature. - Murray (WN 285)
To be a tourist is to escape accountability.