When my head is in the typewriter the last thing on my mind is some imaginary reader. I don't have an audience; I have a set of standards.
Don DeLilloWe live in an age of rapid mass media, television, Internet. They determine our tempo, not books.
Don DeLilloAnd what's the point of waking up in the morning if you don't try to match the enormousness of the known forces in the world with something powerful in your own life?
Don DeLillo