It occured to me that eating is the only form of professionalism most people ever attain. – Don DeLillo
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. – 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. – Don DeLillo
The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence. – Don DeLillo
I quit my job just to quit. I didn’t quit my job to write fiction. I just didn’t want to work anymore. – 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? – Don DeLillo
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. – Don DeLillo
I slept for four years. I didn’t study much of anything. I majored in something called communication arts. – Don DeLillo
I think there is a sense of last things in my work that probably comes from a Catholic childhood. – 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. – Don DeLillo
One truth is the swing of the sentence, the beat and poise, but down deeper it’s the integrity of the writer as he matches with the language. – Don DeLillo
When you try to unravel something you’ve written, you belittle it in a way. It was created as a mystery. – Don DeLillo
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. – Don DeLillo
People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power. – Don DeLillo
There’s always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down. – Don DeLillo
Silence, exile, cunning and so on… it’s my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work. – Don DeLillo
The modern meaning of life’s end-when does it end? How does it end? How should it end? What is the value of life? How do we measure it? – Don DeLillo