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The speaker says that writing is a way of understanding the self. The sentence is not just a finished product; it is also a process through which identity becomes clearer one word at a time.
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About Don DeLillo
American novelist, short-story writer, playwright, screenwriter, and essayist
Donald Richard DeLillo is an American novelist, short-story writer, playwright, screenwriter, and essayist. He is known for fiction that takes on modern life and its pressures, from consumer culture and television to politics, economics, sport, and the digital age. Across novels, stories, plays, scripts, and essays, DeLillo returns to the systems and language that shape public and private life. His work also engages with nuclear war, art, and mathematics, often tracing how ideas, media, and technology affect the way people think and speak.
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Reflections: more sayings
- “I often eat cakes while my fingers are caked in soil.”Monty Don
- “Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.”Jane Austen
- “Not only the bull attacks his enemies with curved horn, but also the sheep, when harmed fights back.”Sextus Propertius
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Books by Don DeLillo
Cosmopolis
2003
Underworld
1997
Libra
1988
Falling Man
2007
Mao II
1991