3 December 2020 Don DeLillo I felt Joyce was an influence on my fiction, but in a very general way, as a kind of inspiration and a model for the beauty of language.
3 December 2020 Don DeLillo There’s a connection between the advances that are made in technology and the sense of primitive fear people develop in response to it.
3 December 2020 Don DeLillo People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power.
3 December 2020 Don DeLillo I watch movies occasionally, and I watch documentaries. Virtually nothing else.
3 December 2020 Don DeLillo Never underestimate the power of the State to act out its own massive fantasies.
3 December 2020 Don DeLillo Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.
3 December 2020 Don DeLillo In a repressive society, a writer can be deeply influential, but in a society that’s filled with glut and repetition and endless consumption, the act of terror may be the only meaningful act.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Don DeLillo I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.
3 December 2020 Don DeLillo I slept for four years. I didn’t study much of anything. I majored in something called communication arts.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Don DeLillo The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence.
