{"quotes":[{"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"},{"text":"Doesn't seem quite real. It's not meaningful. I can't quite imagine myself being 73. That's the age my father was! [Laughter.] How can I be his age? It's weird.","author":"Don DeLillo","tags":["age","ageing","fathers","robert-mccrum","weirdness"],"id":19127,"author_id":"Don+DeLillo"},{"text":"Too young for Korea, too old for Vietnam.","author":"Don DeLillo","tags":["autobiography","korea","korean-war","robert-mccrum","vietnam","vietnam-war","war"],"id":162893,"author_id":"Don+DeLillo"},{"text":"Time and death: It's the ultimate vision of an artist at the end of everything. It's just what's there. It was not something I planned to do.","author":"Don DeLillo","tags":["art","artistic-vision","artists","death","literature","robert-mccrum","time"],"id":288507,"author_id":"Don+DeLillo"},{"text":"It's my contention that each book creates its own structure and its own length. I've written three or four slim books. It may be that the next novel is a big one, but I don't know.","author":"Don DeLillo","tags":["books","dramatic-structure","length-of-a-novel","literature","narrative","novels","robert-mccrum","writing"],"id":353995,"author_id":"Don+DeLillo"},{"text":"It was only after two years' work that it occurred to me that I was a writer. I had no particular expectation that the novel would ever be published, because it was sort of a mess. It was only when I found myself writing things I didn't realise I knew that I said, 'I'm a writer now.' The novel had become an incentive to deeper thinking. That's really what writing is—an intense form of thought.","author":"Don DeLillo","tags":["americana-novel","autobiography","novels","philosophy","publishing","robert-mccrum","self-actualization","thought","writers","writing"],"id":378110,"author_id":"Don+DeLillo"},{"text":"I was too much of a Bronx kid to read Emerson or Hawthorne.","author":"Don DeLillo","tags":["bronx","literature","nathaniel-hawthorne","ralph-waldo-emerson","reading","robert-mccrum","youth"],"id":475458,"author_id":"Don+DeLillo"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":7,"pages":1}}