Posts tagged Don DeLillo
Congratulations to Don DeLillo, who has won the inaugural Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction, inspired by earlier incarnations that awarded prizes for lifetime achievement in the writing of fiction and, for the past three years, Creative Achievement Award for fiction.
DeLillo will be given the prize during the National Book Festival on September 21-22.
Writing is a concentrated form of thinking…a young writer sees that with words he can place himself more clearly into the world. Words on a page, that’s all it takes to help him separate himself from the forces around him, streets and people and pressures and feelings. He learns to think about these things, to ride his own sentences into new perceptions.
Don DeLillo
Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us. In the end, writers will write not to be outlaw heroes of some underculture but mainly to save themselves, to survive as individuals.
Don Delillo (via nathanielswhite)
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Underworld
Room
Half Broke Horses
The First Five Pages
Then She Found Me
Motherless Brooklyn
If I Stay
Mudbound
A History of Reading
The Pale King
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I'm a part-time writer who also loves reading (all kinds of genres), movies, music, and long discussions about meaningful topics with my friends over several glasses of wine.
All the quotes on this site are marked with the author's name, except those marked with TBV; those quotes are my own.
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