Don DeLillo

I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism. ”

May the days be aimless. Do not advance action according to a plan. ”

America was and is the immigrant's dream. ”

It's no accident that my first novel was called Americana. This was a private declaration of independence, a statement of my intention to use the whole picture, the whole culture. ”

Men with secrets tend to be drawn to each other, not because they want to share what they know but because they need the company of the like-minded, the fellow afflicted. ”

I like the construction of sentences and the juxtaposition of words-not just how they sound or what they mean, but even what they look like. ”

It occured to me that eating is the only form of professionalism most people ever attain. ”

For me, writing is a concentrated form of thinking. ”

I think there is a sense of last things in my work that probably comes from a Catholic childhood. ”

Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work. ”