Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there. — Don DeLillo
I quit my job just to quit. I didn’t quit my job to write fiction. I just didn’t want to work anymore. — Don DeLillo
I wanted to understand this event, and the only way to understand it was to write about it. — Don DeLillo
I slept for four years. I didn’t study much of anything. I majored in something called communication arts. — Don DeLillo
I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been european movies, jazz, and abstract expressionism. — Don DeLillo
I think there is a sense of last things in my work that probably comes from a catholic childhood. — Don DeLillo
I’ve always liked being relatively obscure. I feel that’s where I belong, that’s where my work belongs. — Don DeLillo
I’ve always seen myself in sentences. I begin to recognize myself, word by word, as I work through a sentence. — Don DeLillo
It occured to me that eating is the only form of professionalism most people ever attain. — Don DeLillo
Silence, exile, cunning and so on… it’s my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work. — Don DeLillo
The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence. — Don DeLillo
There’s a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the writer’s will to live. — Don DeLillo
When you try to unravel something you’ve written, you belittle it in a way. It was created as a mystery. — Don DeLillo
Writers in repressive societies are considered dangerous. That’s why so many of them are in jail. — Don DeLillo