Don DeLillo Quotes - Page 14

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• If any art form can accommodate contemporary culture, it's the novel. It's so malleable - it can incorporate essays, poetry, film. Maybe the challenge for the novelist is to stretch his art and his language, to the point where it can finally describe what's happening around him.

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  Art, Challenges, Novelists

  "Don DeLillo's Hidden Truths". Interview with David Streitfield, perival.com. November 11, 1997.

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• Technology and violence are interdependent.

  Don DeLillo

  Technology, Violence

  Interview with Cecilia Sjoholm, perival.com. 1994.

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• The world is shrinking into a kind of technological funnel. I think people are drawn into their technological devices, and this becomes a kind of subjective universe, into which much of the rest of the world simply does not enter.

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  Thinking, People, Doe

  Interviews with Don DeLillo, perival.com. December 15, 2016.

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• There's something nearly mystical about certain words and phrases that float through our lives. It's computer mysticism. Words that are computer generated to be used on products that might be sold anywhere from Japan to Denmark - words devised to be pronounceable in a hundred languages. And when you detach one of these words from the product it was designed to serve, the words acquires a chantlike quality.

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  Japan, Quality, Phrases

  Don DeLillo, Thomas DePietro (2005). “Conversations with Don DeLillo”, p.97, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• 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.

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  Novelists, World, Way

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

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• Certainly I've never tried to imagine what the future will hold. It's a hopeless endeavor to try to do such a thing.

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  Trying, Hopeless, Imagine

  Interviews with Don DeLillo, perival.com. December 15, 2016.

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• A novel determines its own size and shape and I've never tried to stretch an idea beyond the frame and structure it seemed to require.

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  Ideas, Shapes, Size

  PEN America Interview, pen.org. September 15, 2010.

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• The excitement of theatre is palpable but the frustrations, and the complete absence of a definitive evening - the play as text means practically nothing in a way - , there's no particular performance that is definitive in the way a novel is a solid object you hold in your hands and here it is. You can't say that about a play. If the novel gives us a sense of throbbing consciousness, theater is pure soul, beautiful and elusive.

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  Beautiful, Mean, Frustration

  Interview with Marc Chénetier, François Happe, perival.com. March 11, 1999.

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• Writers, some of us, may tend to see things before other people do, things that are right there but aren't noticed in the way that a writer might notice.

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  People, May, Might

  Interviews with Don DeLillo, perival.com. December 15, 2016.

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• It's impossible to write about the Kennedy assassination and its aftermath without taking note of twenty-five years of paranoia which has collected around that event.

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  Writing, Years, Twenties

  Don DeLillo, Thomas DePietro (2005). “Conversations with Don DeLillo”, p.38, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• 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.

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  Believe, Men, Long Ago

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

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• I marched and I protested against the war in Vietnam, along with many, many thousands of others. But I never quite understood the bombs that were placed in science labs or office buildings.

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  War, Office, Vietnam

  "Intensity of a Plot". Interview with Mark Binelli, www.guernicamag.com. July 17, 2007.

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• I think literature has lost it's power. Great novels continue to be written, but they are no longer changing the world.

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  Thinking, Literature, World

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

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• That's how you write novels actually. You suddenly hit upon something and you realize this is the path you were meant to take. You'd be a fool if you didn't follow it. Perhaps it's like solving a difficult question in pure mathematics. There must be a moment when the solution is so simple and evident that you wonder why you hadn't come upon it before. When you do come upon it, you know it in the deepest part of your being. It carries its own logic.

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  Writing, Simple, Difficult Questions

  "The Day John Kennedy Died". Interview with Jonh Wilde, perival.com. November 19, 1988.

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• We live in an age of rapid mass media, television, Internet. They determine our tempo, not books.

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  Book, Media, Age

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

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• 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.

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  Blow, Two, World

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

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• That's what in theory differentiates a writer from everyone else. You see and hear more clearly.

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  Theory, Differentiate

  "Lurking around society's edges". The Age Interview, www.theage.com.au. February 22, 2006.

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• A writer decides to follow some ideas and not others for reasons that aren't always clear to him. It's often a matter of intuition.

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  Ideas, Intuition, Matter

  "Unraveling DeLillo". Interview with Sid Smith, articles.chicagotribune.com. April 30, 2006.

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• I would never write in response to what I believe the public wanted or needed.

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  Believe, Writing, Needed

  Interviews with Don DeLillo, perival.com. December 15, 2016.

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• We don't really know how technology will affect narrative. That's the question. See, people used to say that the novel is going to die, but they would never say that movies will die with it, when in fact all forms depend on the narrative. I think if one of them fails, the others are going to fail as well. Maybe this will happen to both forms, and maybe movies will take a totally different direction with fiction.

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  Technology, Thinking, People

  Interviews with Don DeLillo, perival.com. December 15, 2016.

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• The music I like best is kind of frozen in my mind from the Sixties and Seventies. I still listen to the same jazz music I listened to when I was eighteen years old, and like and admire it just as much.

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  Years, Mind, Frozen

  "Intensity of a Plot". Interview with Mark Binelli, www.guernicamag.com. July 17, 2007.

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• It's true that some of us become better writers by living long enough. But this is also how we become worse writers. The trick is to die in between.

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  Long, Enough, Tricks

  "Don DeLillo receiving honorary National Book Award". Interview with Hillel Italie, apnews.com. September 2, 2015.

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