Don delillo

For me, writing is a concentrated form of thinking.

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.

There's a connection between the advances that are made in technology and the sense of primitive fear people develop in response to it.

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

Rushdie is a hostage.

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

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

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

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.

Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.