One connection I see between novelists and terrorists is that we both attempt to alter consciousness.
Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed. Keith Mohler, 1994.
-- Don Delillo, (Nov 20 1936-____), US novelist; His works include White Noise, 1985, Libra, 1988 and Mao II, 1991; won PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, 1992.