It was only after two years' work that it occurred to me that I was a writer. I had no particular expectation that the novel would ever be published, because it was sort of a mess. It was only when I found myself writing things I didn't realise I knew that I said, 'I'm a writer now.' The novel had become an incentive to deeper thinking. That's really what writing isโan intense form of thought.
Don DeLilloMoney has lost its narrative quality the way painting did once upon a time. Money is talking to itself.
Don DeLilloWorld is supposed to mean something that's self-contained. but nothing is self-contained.
Don DeLillo