“It's true that some of us become better writers by living long enough. But this is also how we become worse writers. The trick is to die in between.” LongEnoughDiesTricksLiving Long Author:Don DeLillo
“In my experience, writing a novel tends to create its own structure, its own demands, its own language, its own ending.” WritingLanguageNovelDemandStructure Author:Don DeLillo
“I think my work is influenced by the fact that we're living in dangerous times. If I could put it in a sentence, in fact, my work is about just that: living in dangerous times.” IfsThinkingFactsDangerousSentencesIf I Could Author:Don DeLillo
“I am not comfortable with abstract writing, stories that look like essays: you have to see, I need to see.” NeedsWritingLooksStoriesComfortableAbstractEssaysWriting Stories Author:Don DeLillo
“To portray America over the past twenty years or so, I would think immediately of football, probably the Super Bowl in its sumptuous suggestion of a national death wish.” ThinkingYearsAmericaPastWishFootballTwentiesBowlsSuggestionsOver The PastSuper BowlDeath WishSumptuous Author:Don DeLillo
“We don't really know how technology will affect narrative. That's the question. See, people used to say that the novel is going to die, but they would never say that movies will die with it, when in fact all forms depend on the narrative. I think if one of them fails, the others are going to fail as well. Maybe this will happen to both forms, and maybe movies will take a totally different direction with fiction.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsWellsDifferentFactsHappensFormUsedDiesFictionTechnologyNovelKnow HowFailingDependsNarrativeDifferent Directions Author:Don DeLillo
“I would never write in response to what I believe the public wanted or needed.” WritingBelieveWantedI BelieveNeededResponse Author:Don DeLillo
“I do think that in the near future, if it hasn't happened already, people will be able to use technology to design their own novels, perhaps with individuals themselves as the main character. In other words, everything is being individualized and narrowed.” PeopleIfsThinkingCharacterUseAbleIndividualTechnologyNovelHappenedDesignMain Characters Author:Don DeLillo
“The world is shrinking into a kind of technological funnel. I think people are drawn into their technological devices, and this becomes a kind of subjective universe, into which much of the rest of the world simply does not enter.” PeopleThinkingWorldKindDoeUniverseDevicesTechnologicalSubjectiveShrinking Author:Don DeLillo
“A novel determines its own size and shape and I've never tried to stretch an idea beyond the frame and structure it seemed to require.” IdeasNovelShapesStructureSizeDetermine Author:Don DeLillo