Don delillo

Writers in repressive societies are considered dangerous. That's why so many of them are in jail.

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There's never a dearth of reasons to shoot at the President.

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When you try to unravel something you've written, you belittle it in a way. It was created as a mystery.

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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.

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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?

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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.

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America was and is the immigrant's dream.

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The language of my books has shaped me as a man.

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People will always make comparisons.

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