Donald Richard “Don” DeLillo is 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, and global terrorism.
Quotes of Don DeLillo :
1. People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power.
- I quit my job just to quit. I didn’t quit my job to write fiction. I just didn’t want to work anymore.
- There’s always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.
- It occurred to me that eating is the only form of professionalism most people ever attain.
- Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there.
- One truth is the swing of the sentence, the beat and poise, but down deeper it’s the integrity of the writer as he matches with the language.
- I slept for four years. I didn’t study much of anything. I majored in something called communication arts.
- I’ve always seen myself in sentences. I begin to recognize myself, word by word, as I work through a sentence.
- There’s a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the writer’s will to live.
- True terror is a language and a vision. There is a deep narrative structure to terrorist acts, and they infiltrate and alter consciousness in ways that writers used to aspire to.
BY SHWETA TIWARI
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