Don DeLillo Trying Quotations

When you try to unravel something you've written, you belittle it in a way. It was created as a mystery.

America can be saved only by what it's trying to destroy.

Certainly I've never tried to imagine what the future will hold. It's a hopeless endeavor to try to do such a thing...

If an idea seems to find its way towards a stage setting, that's the direction I take. I don't know if I'm trying to achieve anything other than to follow an idea on to the page.

When I work, I'm just translating the world around me in what seems to be straightforward terms. For my readers, this is sometimes a vision that's not familiar. But I'm not trying to manipulate reality. This is just what I see and hear.

I don't know what I think about certain subjects, even today, until I sit down and try to write about them.

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?