Quotes by Don DeLillo - AI Generated Quotes

Don DeLillo

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

-Don DeLillo

alone

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.

-Don DeLillo

beauty

I slept for four years. I didn't study much of anything. I majored in something called communication arts.

-Don DeLillo

communication

There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.

-Don DeLillo

fear

There's a connection between the advances that are made in technology and the sense of primitive fear people develop in response to it.

-Don DeLillo

fear

The future belongs to crowds.

-Don DeLillo

future

I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.

-Don DeLillo

movies

I watch movies occasionally, and I watch documentaries. Virtually nothing else.

-Don DeLillo

movies

There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.

-Don DeLillo

nature

People who are powerless make an open theater of violence.

-Don DeLillo

power

People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power.

-Don DeLillo

power

Never underestimate the power of the State to act out its own massive fantasies.

-Don DeLillo

power

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.

-Don DeLillo

society

The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence.

-Don DeLillo

society

In the face of technology, everything becomes a little atavistic.

-Don DeLillo

technology

There's a connection between the advances that are made in technology and the sense of primitive fear people develop in response to it.

-Don DeLillo

technology

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.

Don DeLillo

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

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.

I slept for four years. I didn't study much of anything. I majored in something called communication arts.

There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.

There's a connection between the advances that are made in technology and the sense of primitive fear people develop in response to it.

The future belongs to crowds.

I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.

I watch movies occasionally, and I watch documentaries. Virtually nothing else.

There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.

People who are powerless make an open theater of violence.

People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power.

Never underestimate the power of the State to act out its own massive fantasies.

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.

The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence.

In the face of technology, everything becomes a little atavistic.

There's a connection between the advances that are made in technology and the sense of primitive fear people develop in response to it.

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.

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