Don DeLillo Quote

Have you ever wandered why some novelists make reading their books such an arduous process? Below is a quotation from America's best novelist, my favorite, Don DeLillo. He argues why difficulty should be a novelist's obligation:

"Making things difficult for the reader is less an attack on the reader than it is on the age and its facile knowledge market. The writer is driven by his conviction that some truths aren't arrived at so easily, that life is still full of mystery, that it might be better for you, Dear Reader, if you went back to the Living section of your newspaper because this is the dying section and you don't really want to be here."