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100 Top Quotes By Don DeLillo, The Author Of White Noise

Famous As: Writer, Playwright, Screenwriter, Novelist, Essayist, Journalist

Born On: 1936

Born In: New York City

Age: 88 Years

A PEN/ Faulkner Award recipient and two times Pulitzer Prize nominee, Don DeLillo is an American novelist, playwright and essayist who rose to fame with his bestseller work, ‘White Noise’ that brought him widespread recognition and respect. A well acclaimed writer, DeLillo shot to fame for his works that covered a wide variety of subjects including television, nuclear war, sports, the complexities of language, performance art, the Cold War, mathematics, the advent of the digital age, politics, economics, and global terrorism. After the stellar success of ‘White Noise’, DeLillo struck gold again with his book, ‘Libra’ that gained him prominence as a cult writer. His work displays elements of both modernism and modernism. Most of his works revolve around exploring postmodern themes of rampant consumerism, novelty intellectualism, underground conspiracies, the disintegration and re-integration of the family, and the promise of rebirth through violence. His works also reflect psychology of crowds and capitulation of individuals to group identity. This also holds true in terms of his quotes that actually throw a light into his ideals and beliefs. They touch various aspects of life and give us a new perspective from which to look at life and things. Explore this section for Don DeLillo quotes.

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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.

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.
You I
Don DeLillo

The future belongs to crowds.
Future
Don DeLillo

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.

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.
Experience Life
Don DeLillo

I've got death inside me. It's just a question of whether or not I can outlive it.

I've got death inside me. It's just a question of whether or not I can outlive it.
Me Death I
Don DeLillo

California deserves whatever it gets. Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.

California deserves whatever it gets. Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.
Alone
Don DeLillo

Sometimes I see something so moving I know I’m not supposed to linger. See it and leave. If you stay too long, you wear out the wordless shock. Love it and trust it and leave.

Sometimes I see something so moving I know I’m not supposed to linger. See it and leave. If you stay too long, you wear out the wordless shock. Love it and trust it and leave.
You Love I
Don DeLillo

He wanted to fuck her loudly on a hard bed with rain beating on the windows.

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

There are dead stars that still shine because their light is trapped in time. Where do I stand in this light, which does not strictly exist?

There are dead stars that still shine because their light is trapped in time. Where do I stand in this light, which does not strictly exist?
Time I
Don DeLillo

The greater the scientific advance, the more primitive the fear.

The greater the scientific advance, the more primitive the fear.
Fear
Don DeLillo

Even when you self-destruct, you want to fail more, lose more, die more than others, stink more than others.

Even when you self-destruct, you want to fail more, lose more, die more than others, stink more than others.
You
Don DeLillo

All plots tend to move deathward. This is the nature of plots.

All plots tend to move deathward. This is the nature of plots.
Nature
Don DeLillo

It was important for him to believe that he'd spent his life among people who kept missing the point.

It was important for him to believe that he'd spent his life among people who kept missing the point.
Life Believe
Don DeLillo

What we are reluctant to touch often seems the very fabric of our salvation.

What we are reluctant to touch often seems the very fabric of our salvation.
Don DeLillo

Facts are lonely things
Don DeLillo

Talent is more erotic when it's wasted.
Don DeLillo

It is possible to be homesick for a place even when you are there.

It is possible to be homesick for a place even when you are there.
You
Don DeLillo

What good is knowledge if it just floats in the air? It goes from computer to computer. It changes and grows every second of every day. But nobody actually knows anything.

What good is knowledge if it just floats in the air? It goes from computer to computer. It changes and grows every second of every day. But nobody actually knows anything.
Don DeLillo

Before pop art, there was such a thing as bad taste. Now there's kitsch, schlock, camp, and porn.

Before pop art, there was such a thing as bad taste. Now there's kitsch, schlock, camp, and porn.
Art
Don DeLillo

It is so much simpler to bury reality than it is to dispose of dreams

It is so much simpler to bury reality than it is to dispose of dreams
Dreams
Don DeLillo

I'm not reclusive at all. Just private.
Don DeLillo

Everything is barely weeks. Everything is days. We have minutes to live.

Everything is barely weeks. Everything is days. We have minutes to live.
Don DeLillo

Doesn't our knowledge of death make life more precious?'

What good is a preciousness based on fear and anxiety? It's an anxious quivering thing

Doesn't our knowledge of death make life more precious?' What good is a preciousness based on fear and anxiety? It's an anxious quivering thing
Life Death Fear
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.

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

That's why people take vacations. No to relax or find excitement or see new places. To escape the death that exists in routine things.

That's why people take vacations. No to relax or find excitement or see new places. To escape the death that exists in routine things.
Death
Don DeLillo