It's true that some of us become better writers by living long enough. But this is also how we become worse writers. The trick is to die in between.
Don DeLilloMirrors and images. Or sex and love. These are two separate systems that we miserably try to link.
Don DeLilloOne of my earliest memories as a reader - I don't know how old I was, quite young - was a poem of his, called "Fog," and I remember the first verse, "The fog comes / on little cat feet".
Don DeLilloWe live in an age of rapid mass media, television, Internet. They determine our tempo, not books.
Don DeLillo