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- One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- I think there is a sense of last things in my work that probably comes from a Catholic childhood. — Don DeLillo
- Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work. — Don DeLillo
- I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism. — Don DeLillo