Don DeLillo Quotes

Who says reading should be easy? Shouldn't it challenge you as hard sometimes as love. Maybe "hard" is not the right word in this context. Ha!

We don't need to dumb down our stuff. And it's important to know how far we can push readers.

Invite the reader to participate by deciphering. Chaos can attract and engage.

My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.

I'm not a masochistic reader. If something is just too dense or not enjoyable, even though I'm told it should be good for me, I'll put it down. That said, most of what I read would be considered high-end or good for you, I suppose. But, I also think that reading should be enjoyable.

I know you shouldn't spit in your own soup but I think most crime writing is like TV and doesn't make enormous demands on one's intellect.

Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assaults of thoughts on the unthinking.

It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things.

For me, the iPhone is harder than reading Faust.

I'm not over-enamored of complicated books, and wonder if it's more for the author's ego than anything else?

'Candida' was difficult: stimulating but very wordy.

Good drama should sandpaper the mind.

More often than not in poetry I find difficulty to be gratuitous and show-offy and camouflaging, experimental to a kind of insane degree - a difficulty which really ignores the possibility of having a sensible reader.

Chess is the only game greater than its players.

It is hard to write about physically difficult things without causing the reader to disengage.

The best book is not one that informs merely, but one that stirs the reader up to inform himself.

Books do not make life easier or more simple, but harder and more interesting.

Simplicity, very rare in our age.

We are living in a dynamic age with multiple ideas and beliefs of correctness; this world is not deterministic and not still.

Those authors who would find many readers, must endeavour to please while they instruct.

Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult. Even with no motive to be false, it is very hard to say the exact truth.

Any play that makes an audience think out of the box, that makes connections to life and names our pain and by doing so makes our pain subject to thinking and the process of understanding, is doing something inherently political. By promoting understanding, by putting experience in context, by making connections between the normal and the rational, theatre is an act of anti-terrorism. It stimulates courage and a survival spirit. In that sense of political, there are a lot of serious plays doing their work in the world.

In this day and age, love is temporary and marriage is unnatural--the product of Madison Avenue advertising executives and television producers.

When I was your age, television was called books.

Everytime a lawyer writes something, he is not writing for posterity, he is writing something so that endless others of his craft can make a living out of trying to figure out what he said. Course perhaps he really haden't said anything, that's what makes it so hard to explain.