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I embarked on my life - I didn't do anything. I don't have an explanation.
Don DeLillo
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Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work.
Don DeLillo
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I watch movies occasionally, and I watch documentaries. Virtually nothing else.
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American writers ought to stand and live in the margins, and be more dangerous.
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I've always seen myself in sentences. I begin to recognize myself, word by word, as I work through a sentence.
Don DeLillo
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It's no accident that my first novel was called Americana. This was a private declaration of independence, a statement of my intention to use the whole picture, the whole culture.
Don DeLillo
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Never underestimate the power of the State to act out its own massive fantasies.
Don DeLillo
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I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.
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I saw a photograph of a wedding conducted by Reverend Moon of the Unification Church. I wanted to understand this event, and the only way to understand it was to write about it.
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Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.
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When you try to unravel something you've written, you belittle it in a way. It was created as a mystery.
Don DeLillo
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I felt Joyce was an influence on my fiction, but in a very general way, as a kind of inspiration and a model for the beauty of language.
Don DeLillo
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If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature. Lovely.
Don DeLillo
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In the face of technology, everything becomes a little atavistic.
Don DeLillo
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It occured to me that eating is the only form of professionalism most people ever attain.
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