Don DeLillo Quote
Did you see what you just did? You took the coffee can with you to the counter.So what?You didn't have to. You could have left it by the stove where you were standing and then gone to the counter to get the spoon.You're saying I carried the coffee can unnecessarily.You carried it in your right hand all the way to the counter, put it down to open the drawer, which you didn't want to do with your left hand, then got the spoon with your right hand, switched it to your left hand, picked up the coffee can with your right hand and went back to the stove, where you put it down again.That's what people do.It's wasted motion. People waste tremendous amounts of motion. You ought to watch Baba make a salad sometime.People don't deliberate over each tiny motion and gesture. A little waste doesn't hurt.But over a lifetime?What do you save if you don't waste?Over a lifetime? You save tremendous amounts of time and energy, he said.What will you do with them?Use them to live longer.
Did you see what you just did? You took the coffee can with you to the counter.So what?You didn't have to. You could have left it by the stove where you were standing and then gone to the counter to get the spoon.You're saying I carried the coffee can unnecessarily.You carried it in your right hand all the way to the counter, put it down to open the drawer, which you didn't want to do with your left hand, then got the spoon with your right hand, switched it to your left hand, picked up the coffee can with your right hand and went back to the stove, where you put it down again.That's what people do.It's wasted motion. People waste tremendous amounts of motion. You ought to watch Baba make a salad sometime.People don't deliberate over each tiny motion and gesture. A little waste doesn't hurt.But over a lifetime?What do you save if you don't waste?Over a lifetime? You save tremendous amounts of time and energy, he said.What will you do with them?Use them to live longer.
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About Don DeLillo
DeLillo was already a well-regarded cult writer in 1985, when the publication of White Noise brought him widespread recognition and the National Book Award for fiction. He followed this in 1988 with Libra, a novel about the assassination of John F. Kennedy. DeLillo won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Mao II, about terrorism and the media's scrutiny of writers' private lives, and the William Dean Howells Medal for Underworld, a historical novel that ranges in time from the dawn of the Cold War to the birth of the Internet. He was awarded the 1999 Jerusalem Prize, the 2010 PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction in 2010, and the 2013 Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction.
DeLillo has described his themes as "living in dangerous times" and "the inner life of the culture". In a 2005 interview, he said that writers "must oppose systems. It's important to write against power, corporations, the state, and the whole system of consumption and of debilitating entertainments... I think writers, by nature, must oppose things, oppose whatever power tries to impose on us."