You need to know things the others don't know. It's what no one knows about you that allows you to know yourself.
Don DeLilloI think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.
Don DeLilloYou have to break through the structure of your own stonework habit just to make yourself listen.
Don DeLilloIn my experience, writing a novel tends to create its own structure, its own demands, its own language, its own ending. So for much of the period in which I'm writing, I'm waiting to understand what's going to happen next, and how and where it's going to happen. In some cases, fairly early in the process, I do know how a book will end. But most of the time, not at all, and in this particular case, many questions are still unanswered, even though I've been working for months.
Don DeLillo