813 Quotes by Don DeLillo

And what's the point of waking up in the morning if you don't try to match the enormousness of the known forces in the world with something powerful in your own life?

Plot a murder, you're saying. But every plot is a murder in effect. To plot is to die, whether we know it or not.

I didn’t do anything. I don’t have an explanation, I don’t know why I wanted to write. I did some short stories at that time, but very infrequently. I quit my job just to quit. I didn’t quit my job to write fiction. I just didn’t want to work anymore

I am ashamed every day, and more ashamed the next.

There were moments when she wasn't talking so much as fading into time, dropping back into some funnelled stretch of recent past.

There are two categories of writers, it could be said: The author who is just a voice, and the one who is also creating a picture. I belong to the latter, because I have an acute visual sense.

You feel sorry for yourself. You think you're missing something and you don't know what it is. You're lonely inside your life. You have a job and a family and a fully executed will, already, at your age, because the whole point is to die prepared, die legal, with all the papers signed. Die liquid, so they can convert to cash.

That's what in theory differentiates a writer from everyone else. You see and hear more clearly.

It frequently happens that I begin a novel with just a visual image of something, a vague sense of people in three dimensional space.