Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there.
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There's never a dearth of reasons to shoot at the President.Don DeLillo
Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us. In the end, writers will write not to be outlaw heroes of some underculture but mainly to save themselves, to survive as individuals.
Don DeLillo
I saw a photograph of a wedding conducted by Reverend Moon of the Unification Church. I wanted to understand this event, and the only way to understand it was to write about it.
Don DeLillo
Never underestimate the power of the State to act out its own massive fantasies.
Don DeLillo
I watch movies occasionally, and I watch documentaries. Virtually nothing else.
Don DeLillo
If I were a writer, 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. Lovely.
Don DeLillo
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