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Quotes by Don Delillo
- 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.
- 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.
- I slept for four years. I didn't study much of anything. I majored in something called communication arts.
- 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.
- 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.
- In the face of technology, everything becomes a little atavistic.
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