There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.

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• Don DeLillo:

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

• Don DeLillo:

  Hardship makes the world obscure.

• Don DeLillo:

  If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the m

• Don DeLillo:

  Men with secrets tend to be drawn to each other, not because they want to share what they know but

• Don DeLillo:

  A Catholic is raised with the idea that he will die any minute now and if he doesn't live his life

• Don DeLillo:

  America was and is the immigrant's dream.

• Don DeLillo:

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

• Don DeLillo:

  Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he fi

• 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.