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 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.
California deserves whatever it gets. Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.
Pain is just another form of information.
Any assault on the borders of perception is going to seem rash at first.
There is a world inside the world.
Perhaps we've invented conspiracies for our own psychic well-being, to heal ourselves.
the instant he knew he loved her, she slipped down his body and out of his arms
Talent is more erotic when it's wasted.
My attitudes aren't directed toward characters at all. I don't feel sympathetic toward some characters, unsympathetic toward others. I don't love some characters, feel contempt for others. They have attitudes; I don't.
Some nights I need to be held. Tonight I'm a listener. So nice to lie in rumpled sheets and listen. Cover me with words.
Ask yourself this question. Do we have to be humans forever? Consciousness is exhausted. Back now to inorganic matter. This is what we want. We want to be stones in a field.
Freud is finished, Einstein's next.
When he died he would not end. The world would end.
days like this. i look at you and feel electric. tell me you don't feel it too."_Eric Packer