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
We need time to lose interest in things.
How many beginnings before you see the lies in your excitement?
It was important for him to believe that he'd spent his life among people who kept missing the point.
The world isn't going to be destroyed, but you don't feel safe anymore in your plane or train or office or auditorium.
Any assault on the borders of perception is going to seem rash at first.
People who are powerless make an open theater of violence.
California deserves whatever it gets. Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.
People will not die. Isn't this the creed of the new culture? People will be absorbed in streams of information. I know nothing about this. Computers will die. They're dying in their present form. They're just about dead as distinct units.
It was only after two years' work that it occurred to me that I was a writer. I had no particular expectation that the novel would ever be published, because it was sort of a mess. It was only when I found myself writing things I didn't realise I knew that I said, 'I'm a writer now.' The novel had become an incentive to deeper thinking. That's really what writing is—an intense form of thought.
I don't know what I think about certain subjects, even today, until I sit down and try to write about them.
When birds look into houses, what impossible worlds they see.
In the face of technology, everything becomes a little atavistic.
I was never either pro-culture or counter-culture. I was in a kind of middle state.
Pain is just another form of information.