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

~Don Delillo

Topics: Abstract Been European Expressionism Influences Jazz Major Me More Movies Than Think Writers I Think

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

~Don Delillo

Topics: Catholic Childhood Last Sense Things Think Work I Think

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I watch movies occasionally, and I watch documentaries. Virtually nothing else.

~Don Delillo

Topics: Documentaries Else Movies Nothing Occasionally Virtually Watch

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I've always liked being relatively obscure. I feel that's where I belong, that's where my work belongs.

~Don Delillo

Topics: Always Being Belong Belongs Feel Liked Obscure Relatively Where Work I Feel

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I've always seen myself in sentences. I begin to recognize myself, word by word, as I work through a sentence.

~Don Delillo

Topics: Always Begin Myself Recognize Seen Sentence Sentences Through Word Work

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In a repressive society, a writer can be deeply influential, but in a society that's filled with glut and repetition and endless consumption, the act of terror may be the only meaningful act.

~Don Delillo

Topics: Act Consumption Deeply Endless Filled Influential May Meaningful Only Repetition Repressive Society Terror Writer

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In the face of technology, everything becomes a little atavistic.

~Don Delillo

Topics: Becomes Everything Face Little Technology

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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.

~Don Delillo

Topics: Accident Americana Culture Declaration First Independence Intention Novel Picture Private Statement Use Whole

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One truth is the swing of the sentence, the beat and poise, but down deeper it's the integrity of the writer as he matches with the language.

~Don Delillo

Topics: Beat Deeper Down He Integrity Language Matches Poise Sentence Swing Truth Truth Is Writer

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People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power.

~Don Delillo

Topics: Arrangements Largely Maintaining Make People Power Secret Way Who

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: November 20th, 1936

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