The world is full of abandoned meanings. In the commonplace… - Don DeLillo

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The world is full of abandoned meanings. In the commonplace I find unexpected themes and intensities.

Don DeLillo

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Donald Richard "Don" DeLillo (born November 20, 1936) is an award-winning American novelist, playwright, and essayist, best known for his novels, which paint detailed portraits of American life in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.

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Pen Names: Cleo Birdwell

Birth Name: Donald Richard DeLillo

Alternative Names: Don Delillo • Donald Richard "Don" DeLillo

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I'm a novelist, period. An American novelist.

When a writer doesn't show his face, he becomes a local symptom of God's famous reluctance to appear.

I think fiction comes from everything you've ever done, and said, and dreamed, and imagined. It comes from everything you've read and haven't read...I think my work comes out of the culture of the world around me. I think that's where my language comes from.

The world is full of abandoned meanings. In the commonplace I find unexpected themes and intensities. - Don DeLillo

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