Top 45 Quotes by Don DeLillo

I like the construction of sentences and the juxtaposition of words-not just how they sound or what they mean, but even what they look like.

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.

People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power.

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

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

People who are powerless make an open theater of violence.

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

The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence.