{"text":"When I work, I'm just translating the world around me in what seems to be straightforward terms. For my readers, this is sometimes a vision that's not familiar. But I'm not trying to manipulate reality. This is just what I see and hear.","author":"Don DeLillo","tags":["familiarity","interpretation","literature","novels","readers","reading","realism","reality","robert-mccrum","translation","writing"],"id":18970,"author_id":"Don+DeLillo"}