The difference between the world of pictures and the world of printed matter is extraordinary and hard to define. A picture is like the masses: a multitude of impressions. A book on the other hand, with its linear advance of words and characters seems to be connected to individual identity.
Don DeLilloI think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.
Don DeLilloTime is a corporate asset now. It belongs to the free market system. The present is harder to find... The future becomes insistent.
Don DeLilloThe music I like best is kind of frozen in my mind from the Sixties and Seventies. I still listen to the same jazz music I listened to when I was eighteen years old, and like and admire it just as much.
Don DeLillo