I am telling you what I know—words have music and if you are a musician you will write to hear them.
A novel is a printed circuit through which flows the force of a reader's own life. - E. L. Doctorow
A novel is a printed circuit through which flows the force of a reader's own life.
- E. L. Doctorow
Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way. - E. L. Doctorow
Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
We are able to walk on air, but only as long as our illusion supports us. - E. L. Doctorow
We are able to walk on air, but only as long as our illusion supports us.
Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon. - E. L. Doctorow
Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.
We're always attracted to the edges of what we are, out by the edges where it's a little raw and nervy. - E. L. Doctorow
We're always attracted to the edges of what we are, out by the edges where it's a little raw and nervy.
The philosophical conservative is someone willing to pay the price of other people s suffering for his principles. - E. L. Doctorow
The philosophical conservative is someone willing to pay the price of other people s suffering for his principles.
A novelist is a person who lives in other people's skins. - E. L. Doctorow
A novelist is a person who lives in other people's skins.
I am often asked the question How can the masses permit themselves to be exploited by the few. The answer is By being persuaded to identify with them. - E. L. Doctorow
I am often asked the question How can the masses permit themselves to be exploited by the few. The answer is By being persuaded to identify with them.
The historian will tell you what happened. The novelist will tell you what it felt like. - E. L. Doctorow
The historian will tell you what happened. The novelist will tell you what it felt like.
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