Don DeLillo

Born 1936

Donald Richard DeLillo (Don DeLillo) is an American novelist, playwright and essayist, DeLillo's works centers on subjects as diverse as TV, nuclear war, sports, language, performance art, the Cold War, the digital age, politics, economics, and terrorism.

Quotes

“In this century the writer has carried on a conversation with madness. We might almost say of the twentieth-century writer that he aspires to madness. Some have made it, of course, and they hold special places in our regard. To a writer, madness is a final distillation of self, a final editing down. It's the drowning out of false voices.”
The Names, Chapter 5
“No sense of the irony of human experience, that we are the highest form of life on earth, and yet ineffably sad because we know what no other animal knows, that we must die.”
White Noise
“The world is full of abandoned meanings. In the commonplace I find unexpected themes and intensities.”
White Noise
“I think fiction comes from everything you've ever done, and said, and dreamed, and imagined. It comes from everything you've read and haven't read...I think my work comes out of the culture of the world around me. I think that's where my language comes from.”
'Exile on Main Street: Don DeLillo's Undisclosed Underworld' by David Remnick, T
“He'd once told me that the art of getting ahead in New York was based on learning how to express dissatisfaction in an interesting way. The air was full of rage and complaint. People had no tolerance for your particular hardship unless you knew how to entertain them with it.”
White Noise

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Books by Don DeLillo in order

Books by Don DeLillo in the order they were published, from Americana (1971) to The Silence (2020).

Don DeLillo

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Books by Don DeLillo in order

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