Don DeLillo Novel Quotations

Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.

It occured to me that eating is the only form of professionalism most people ever attain.

I've never made an outline for any novel that I've written. Never.

One connection I see between novelists and terrorists is that we both attempt to alter consciousness.

I'm a novelist, period. An American novelist.

Being called a 'bad citizen' is a compliment to a novelist, at least to my mind. That's exactly what we ought to do.

What terrorists gain, novelists lose.

Years ago I used to think it was possible for a novelist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb-makers and gunman have taken that territory. They make raids on human consciousness. What writers used to do before we were all incorporated.

For me, writing is a concentrated form of thinking.