A writer decides to follow some ideas and not others for reasons that aren't always clear to him. It's often a matter of intuition.
Don DeLilloI think my work is influenced by the fact that we're living in dangerous times. If I could put it in a sentence, in fact, my work is about just that: living in dangerous times.
Don DeLilloA mystery novel localizes the awesome force of the real death outside the book, winds it tightly in a plot.
Don DeLilloMurray said, ยดI donยดt trust anybodyยดs nostalgia but my own. Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. Itยดs a settling of grievances between the present and the past. The more powerful the nostalgia, the closer you come to violence. War is the form nostalgia takes when men are hard-pressed to say something good about their country.ยด
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