Don DeLillo
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
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.
—Don DeLillo, The Names, 1982
Posted on September 13, 2002 at 10:10 AM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version.
—Don DeLillo, The Names
Posted on March 4, 2003 at 9:47 AM
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