Don DeLillo Quotes About Terror

Quotes about: Terror

• There came a time in every prolonged effort when he had a moment of near panic, or 'terror in a lonely place', the original semantic content of the word. The lonely place was his own mind.

  Don DeLillo

  Lonely, Effort, Anxiety

  Don DeLillo (2016). “Ratner's Star”, p.92, Pan Macmillan

• 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

  Meaningful, Literature, May

  Don DeLillo, Thomas DePietro (2005). “Conversations with Don DeLillo”, p.84, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• People think about who they are in the stillest hour of the night. I carry this thought, the child's mystery and terror of this thought, I feel this immensity in my soul every second of my life.

  Don DeLillo

  Children, Night, Thinking

  Don DeLillo (2004). “Cosmopolis: A Novel”, p.155, Simon and Schuster

• Stories have no point if they don't absorb our terror.

  Don DeLillo

  Stories, Terror, No Point

  Don DeLillo (2016). “Mao II”, p.97, Pan Macmillan

• It's all about time, dimwit time, inferior time, people checking watches and other devices, other reminders. This is time draining out of our lives. Cities were built to measure time, to remove time from nature. There's an endless counting down, he said. When you strip away surfaces, when you see into it, what's left is terror. This is the thing that literature was meant to cure. The epic poem, the bedtime story.

  Don DeLillo

  Epic, Cities, People

  Don DeLillo (2010). “Point Omega”, p.36, Pan Macmillan

• Terror is now the world narrative, unquestionably. When those two buildings were struck, and when they collapsed, it was, in effect, an extraordinary blow to consciousness, and it changed everything.

  Don DeLillo

  Blow, Two, World

  "Finding reason in an age of terror". Interview with David L. Ulin, articles.latimes.com. April 15, 2003.

• Not long ago, a novelist could believe he could have an effect on our consciousness of terror. Today, the men who shape and inflence human consciousness are the terrorists.

  Don DeLillo

  Believe, Men, Long Ago

  "I Take the Language Apart". Interview with Nora Kerr, perival.com. June 9, 1991.

• True terror is a language and a vision. There is a deep narrative structure to terrorist acts, and they infiltrate and alter consciousness in ways that writers used to aspire to.

  Don DeLillo

  Narrative Structure, Vision, Literature

  Don DeLillo, Thomas DePietro (2005). “Conversations with Don DeLillo”, p.84, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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