A photograph is a universe of dots. The grain, the halide, the little silver things clumped in the emulsion. Once you get inside a dot, you gain access to hidden information, you slide into the smallest event. This is what technology does. It peels back the shadows and redeems the dazed and rumbling past. It makes reality come true.
Don DeLilloBeing called a 'bad citizen' is a compliment to a novelist, at least to my mind. That's exactly what we ought to do.
Don DeLilloHe wanted paper and something to write with, some way to sustain a thought, to place it in the world.
Don DeLillo