Top 45 Quotes by Don DeLillo

I think a playwright realizes after he finishes working on the script that this is only the beginning. What will happen when it moves into three dimensions?

Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there.

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.

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.

I've always liked being relatively obscure. I feel that's where I belong, that's where my work belongs.

The future belongs to crowds.

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

There's a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the writer's will to live.

The language of my books has shaped me as a man.

Hardship makes the world obscure.