Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us.
Don DeLilloThere were moments when she wasn't talking so much as fading into time, dropping back into some funnelled stretch of recent past.
Don DeLilloThere's a curious knot that binds novelists and terrorists...Years ago I used to think it was possible for a novelist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb-makers and gunmen have taken that territory. They make raids on human consciousness. What writers used to do before we were all incorporated.
Don DeLillo