Don DeLillo Quotes About Reality

• Fear is unnatural. Lightning and thunder are unnatural. Pain, death, reality, these are all unnatural. We can't bear these things as they are. We know too much. So we resort to repression, compromise and disguise. This is how we survive the universe. This is the natural language of the species.

  Don DeLillo

  Pain, Reality, Lightning

  Don DeLillo (2011). “White Noise”, p.321, Pan Macmillan

• Una fotografía es un universo de puntos. El grano, el haluro, las pequeñas cosas de plata aglomeradas en la emulsión. Una vez que te metes dentro de un punto, accedes a información oculta, te deslizas en el acontecimiento más pequeño. Esto es lo que hace la tecnología. Descorre las sombras y redime el pasado aturdido y rumoroso. Hace realidad la realidad.

  Don DeLillo

  Photography, Past, Technology

  Don DeLillo (1998). “Underworld: A Novel”, Scribner

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

  Don DeLillo

  Reality, Literature, Sentences

  Don DeLillo, Thomas DePietro (2005). “Conversations with Don DeLillo”, p.82, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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

  Don DeLillo

  Art, Communication, Reality

  Don DeLillo, Thomas DePietro (2005). “Conversations with Don DeLillo”, p.78, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• We feel certain that the extraterrestrial message is a mathematical code of some kind. Probably a number code. Mathematics is the one language we might conceivably have in common with other forms of intelligent life in the universe. As I understand it, there is no reality more independent of our perception and more true to itself than mathematical reality.

  Don DeLillo

  Independent, Intelligent, Reality

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

  Don DeLillo

  Reality, Bedtime, Dangerous

  Don DeLillo, Thomas DePietro (2005). “Conversations with Don DeLillo”, p.46, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• It is so much simpler to bury reality than it is to dispose of dreams

  Don DeLillo

  Sueño, realidad

  Don DeLillo (1973). “Americana”, Pocket

• When I work, I'm just translating the world around me in what seems to be straightforward terms. For my readers, this is sometimes a vision that's not familiar. But I'm not trying to manipulate reality. This is just what I see and hear.

  Don DeLillo

  Reality, Vision, Trying

• For me, wellbehaved books with neat plots and worked-out endings seem somewhat quaint in the face of the largely incoherent reality of modern life; and then again fiction, at least as I write it and think of it, is a kind of religious meditation in which language is the final enlightenment, and it is language, in its beauty, its ambiguity and its shifting textures, that drives my work.

  Don DeLillo

  Religious, Book, Writing

• The novel is the dream release, the suspension of reality that history needs to escape its own brutal confinements.

  Don DeLillo

  Sueño, Realidad, Necesidades

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