# The Names

- Author: [Don DeLillo](https://www.leafyquotes.com/don-delillo.md)
- Quotes: 3
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/don-delillo/the-names

## Quotes

> If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature. Lovely.

> I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version.

> In this century the writer has carried on a conversation with madness. We might almost say of the twentieth-century writer that he aspires to madness. Some have made it, of course, and they hold special places in our regard. To a writer, madness is a final distillation of self, a final editing down. It's the drowning out of false voices.