Don DeLillo
Don DeLillo
Donald Richard "Don" DeLillois an American novelist, playwright and essayist. His works have covered subjects as diverse as television, nuclear war, sports, the complexities of language, performance art, the Cold War, mathematics, the advent of the digital age, politics, economics, and global terrorism. Initially a well-regarded cult writer, the publication in 1985 of White Noise brought him widespread recognition. It was followed in 1988 by Libra, a bestseller. DeLillo has twice been a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction finalist), won the...
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth20 November 1936
CityBronx, NY
I think if you maintain a force in the world that comes into people's sleep, you are exercising a meaningful power.
We're the last billionth of a second in the evolution of matter.
America can be saved only by what it's trying to destroy.
We commit our crimes at night and reveal ourselves in the high noon of studio lights.
The family is the cradle of the world's misinformation.
Ecology is boring for the same reason that destruction is fun.
To be a tourist is to escape accountability. Errors and failings don't cling to you the way they do back home. You're able to drift across continents and languages, suspending the operation of sound thought. Tourism is the march of stupidity.
We live in an age of rapid mass media, television, Internet. They determine our tempo, not books.
One connection I see between novelists and terrorists is that we both attempt to alter consciousness.
Maybe when we die, the first thing we'll say is 'I know this feeling. I was here before'.
Everything I've stated may prove to be total poppycock.... Perhaps time will tell. Perhaps time will do nothing of the kind.
Digital clocks took the 'space' out of time.
I think literature has lost it's power. Great novels continue to be written, but they are no longer changing the world.
In our world we sleep and eat the image and pray to it and wear it too.