Quotes by Delillo, Don

If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. Ho >>

There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelli >>

America is the world's living myth. There's no sense of wrong when you >>

Quotations about Madness

Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The on >>

Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is >>

One who shows signs of mental aberration is, inevitably, perhaps, but >>

In this century the writer has carried on a conversation with madness. We might almost say of the twentieth-century writer that he aspires to madness. Some have made it, of course, and they hold special places in our regard. To a writer, madness is a final distillation of self, a final editing down. It's the drowning out of false voices.

Delillo, Don