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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

Topics: Being Central Dead Enjoy How Liberating Literature Lovely Margins Novel Outside Perception Were Work Would Writer You

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A Catholic is raised with the idea that he will die any minute now and if he doesn't live his life in a certain way, this death is an introduction to an eternity of pain.

~Don Delillo

Topics: Any Catholic Certain Certain Way Death Die Eternity He His Idea Introduction Life Live Minute Now Pain Raised Way Will

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American writers ought to stand and live in the margins, and be more dangerous.

~Don Delillo

Topics: American American Writers Dangerous Live Margins More Ought Stand Writers

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For me, writing is a concentrated form of thinking.

~Don Delillo

Topics: Concentrated Form Me Thinking Writing

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I embarked on my life - I didn't do anything. I don't have an explanation.

~Don Delillo

Topics: Anything Embarked Explanation Life My Life

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I felt Joyce was an influence on my fiction, but in a very general way, as a kind of inspiration and a model for the beauty of language.

~Don Delillo

Topics: Beauty Felt Fiction General Influence Inspiration Joyce Kind Language Model Very Way

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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.

~Don Delillo

Topics: Construction Even How Just Juxtaposition Like Look Mean Sentences Sound

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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

Topics: About Church Event Moon Only Photograph Saw Understand Unification Wanted Way Wedding Write

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I slept for four years. I didn't study much of anything. I majored in something called communication arts.

~Don Delillo

Topics: Anything Arts Communication Four Much Slept Something Study Years

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I think a playwright realizes after he finishes working on the script that this is only the beginning. What will happen when it moves into three dimensions?

~Don Delillo

Topics: After Beginning Dimensions Finishes Happen He Moves Only Playwright Script Think Three Will Working I Think

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: November 20th, 1936

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