Top 45 Quotes by Don DeLillo

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.

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.

For me, writing is a concentrated form of thinking.

I slept for four years. I didn't study much of anything. I majored in something called communication arts.

Writers in repressive societies are considered dangerous. That's why so many of them are in jail.

Men with secrets tend to be drawn to each other, not because they want to share what they know but because they need the company of the like-minded, the fellow afflicted.

I've always seen myself in sentences. I begin to recognize myself, word by word, as I work through a sentence.

America was and is the immigrant's dream.

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.