Don DeLillo Quotes About Culture

Quotes about: Culture

• People will not die. Isn't this the creed of the new culture? People will be absorbed in streams of information. I know nothing about this. Computers will die. They're dying in their present form. They're just about dead as distinct units.

  Don DeLillo

  People, Dying, Culture

  Don DeLillo (2011). “Cosmopolis”, p.86, Pan Macmillan

• I used to think it was possible for an artist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb-makers and gunmen have taken that territory.

  Don DeLillo

  Taken, Artist, Thinking

  "Don DeLillo: 'I'm not trying to manipulate reality - this is what I see and hear" by Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. August 7, 2010.

• I think fiction comes from everything you've ever done, and said, and dreamed, and imagined. It comes from everything you've read and haven't read... I think my work comes out of the culture of the world around me. I think that's where my language comes from.

  Don DeLillo

  Thinking, Culture, Fiction

  "Exile on Main Street: Don DeLillo's Undisclosed Underworld". David Remnick, The New Yorker, September 15, 1997.

• There's a curious knot that binds novelists and terrorists...Years ago I used to think it was possible for a novelist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb-makers and gunmen have taken that territory. They make raids on human consciousness. What writers used to do before we were all incorporated.

  Don DeLillo

  Taken, Thinking, Years

  "Mao II". Book by Don DeLillo, 1991.

• 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.

  Don DeLillo

  Independence, Culture, Use

  Don DeLillo, Thomas DePietro (2005). “Conversations with Don DeLillo”, p.88, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• Capital burns off the nuance in a culture. Foreign investment, global markets, corporate acquisitions, the flow of information through transnational media, the attenuating influence of money that's electronic and sex that's cyberspaced, untouched money and computer-safe sex, the convergence of consumer desire--not that people want the same things, necessarily, but that they want the same range of choices.

  Don DeLillo

  Sex, Media, People

  Don DeLillo (2015). “Underworld: Picador Classic”, p.769, Pan Macmillan

• Popular culture is inescapable in the U.S. Why not use it?

  Don DeLillo

  Culture, Why Not, Use

  Don DeLillo, Thomas DePietro (2005). “Conversations with Don DeLillo”, p.158, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• I was never either pro-culture or counter-culture. I was in a kind of middle state.

  Don DeLillo

  Counter Culture, Kind, States

  "Intensity of a Plot". Interview with Mark Binelli, www.guernicamag.com. July 17, 2007.

• If any art form can accommodate contemporary culture, it's the novel. It's so malleable - it can incorporate essays, poetry, film. Maybe the challenge for the novelist is to stretch his art and his language, to the point where it can finally describe what's happening around him.

  Don DeLillo

  Art, Challenges, Novelists

  "Don DeLillo's Hidden Truths". Interview with David Streitfield, perival.com. November 11, 1997.

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