Top 45 Quotes by Don DeLillo

American writers ought to stand and live in the margins, and be more dangerous.

For me, writing is a concentrated form of thinking.

I think there is a sense of last things in my work that probably comes from a Catholic childhood.

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 always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.

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.

People who are powerless make an open theater of violence.

I watch movies occasionally, and I watch documentaries. Virtually nothing else.

There's a connection between the advances that are made in technology and the sense of primitive fear people develop in response to it.