Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there.

Next quotes

• Don DeLillo:

  For me, writing is a concentrated form of thinking.

• Don DeLillo:

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

• Don DeLillo:

  I felt Joyce was an influence on my fiction, but in a very general way, as a kind of inspiration an

• Don DeLillo:

  I like the construction of sentences and the juxtaposition of words-not just how they sound or what

• Don DeLillo:

  I quit my job just to quit. I didn't quit my job to write fiction. I just didn't want to work anymo

• Don DeLillo:

  I saw a photograph of a wedding conducted by Reverend Moon of the Unification Church. I wanted to u

• Don DeLillo:

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

• Don DeLillo:

  I think a playwright realizes after he finishes working on the script that this is only the beginni

• Don DeLillo:

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

• Don DeLillo:

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