Don DeLillo Quotes About Terrorists

Quotes about: Terrorists

• There's a curious knot that binds novelists and terrorists...Years ago I used to think it was possible for a novelist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb-makers and gunmen have taken that territory. They make raids on human consciousness. What writers used to do before we were all incorporated.

  Don DeLillo

  Taken, Thinking, Years

  "Mao II". Book by Don DeLillo, 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

• One connection I see between novelists and terrorists is that we both attempt to alter consciousness.

  Don DeLillo

  Novelists, Connections, Consciousness

• Naturally a direct comparison of terrorist and novelist is complete nonsense. But there was once a time when the novelist also had some influence on how his contemporaries thought, the way they saw the world, the way they lived.

  Don DeLillo

  Novelists, World, Way

  "I don't know America anymore". Interview with Christoph Amend, Georg Diez, perival.com. October 11, 2007.

• 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.

• What terrorists gain, novelists lose.

  Don DeLillo

  Novelists, Gains, Terrorist

  Don DeLillo (2016). “Mao II”, p.108, Pan Macmillan

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