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.
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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.
Don DeLilloTag: age ageing fathers weirdness robert-mccrum
Too young for Korea, too old for Vietnam.
Don DeLilloTag: war autobiography vietnam vietnam-war korean-war korea robert-mccrum
But then it came time for me to make my journey—into America. [... N]o coincidence that my first novel is called Americana. That became my subject, the subject that shaped my work. When I get a French translation of one of my books that says 'translated from the American', I think, 'Yes, that's exactly right.
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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.
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I was too much of a Bronx kid to read Emerson or Hawthorne.
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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.
Don DeLilloTag: writing writers philosophy autobiography thought novels self-actualization publishing robert-mccrum americana-novel
I'm not reclusive at all. Just private.
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We are not native. We have no generations of Americans behind us. We have roots elsewhere. We are looking in from the outside. To me, that seems to be perfectly natural.
Don DeLilloTag: americans american-literature philip-roth robert-mccrum paul-auster
Everyone who does not live in Berlin lives in Brooklyn now.
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