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 DeLilloI didnโt do anything. I donโt have an explanation, I donโt know why I wanted to write. I did some short stories at that time, but very infrequently. I quit my job just to quit. I didnโt quit my job to write fiction. I just didnโt want to work anymore
Don DeLilloI 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.
Don DeLillo