Famous Don DeLillo Quotes

  • When a writer doesn’t show his face, he becomes a local symptom of God’s famous reluctance to appear. – Don DeLillo

    When a writer doesn’t show his face, he becomes a local symptom of God’s famous reluctance to appear.– Don DeLillo

  • Brilliant people never think of the lives they smash, being brilliant. – Don DeLillo

    Brilliant people never think of the lives they smash, being brilliant.– Don DeLillo

  • Secrets are an exalted state, almost a dream state. They’re a way of arresting motion, stopping the world so we can see ourselves in it. – Don DeLillo

    Secrets are an exalted state, almost a dream state. They’re a way of arresting motion, stopping the world so we can see ourselves in it.– Don DeLillo

  • You need to know things the others don’t know. It’s what no one knows about you that allows you to know yourself. – Don DeLillo

    You need to know things the others don’t know. It’s what no one knows about you that allows you to know yourself.– Don DeLillo

  • He wanted to ???? her loudly on a hard bed with rain beating on the windows. – Don DeLillo

    He wanted to ???? her loudly on a hard bed with rain beating on the windows.– Don DeLillo

  • You shout because it makes you brave or you want to announce your recklessness. – Don DeLillo

    You shout because it makes you brave or you want to announce your recklessness.– Don DeLillo

  • A writer takes earnest measures to secure his solitude and then finds endless ways to squander it. – Don DeLillo

    A writer takes earnest measures to secure his solitude and then finds endless ways to squander it.– Don DeLillo

  • Man’s guilt in history and in the tides of his own blood has been complicated by technology, the daily seeping falsehearted death. – Don DeLillo

    Man’s guilt in history and in the tides of his own blood has been complicated by technology, the daily seeping falsehearted death.– Don DeLillo

  • How I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature. – Don DeLillo

    How I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature.– Don DeLillo

  • God made big people. And God made little people. But Colt made the .45 to even things up. – Don DeLillo

    God made big people. And God made little people. But Colt made the .45 to even things up.– Don DeLillo