Facts are the images of history, just as images are the facts of fiction. — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
A novel is a printed circuit through which flows the force of a reader's own life. — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative. — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
Books are acts of composition: you compose them. You make music: the music is called fiction. — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
A period of time is as much an organising principle for a work of fiction as a sense of place. You can… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
I am led to the proposition that there is no fiction or nonfiction as we commonly understand the distinction: there is only… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
It may be that the most avid readers of new fiction in America today are film producers, an indication of the trouble… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
There is really no fiction or non-fiction; there is only narrative. One mode of perception has no greater claim on the truth… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
Things that appear on the front page of the newspaper as 'fact' are far more dangerous than the games played by a novelist, and… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share
There are moments when I cannot bear this unremitting consciousness. It knows only itself. Awake, I am in a continuum with my dreams. I… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share
Most people are quiet in the world, and live in it tentatively, as if it were not their own. — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share
It is the immigrant hordes who keep this country alive, the waves of them arriving year after year… Who believes in America more than… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share
I started on computers with 'Billy Bathgate,' a little orange screen with black letters. I thought it was really cool, but it actually slowed… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share
When I'm writing, I like to seal everything off and face the wall, not to look outside the window. The only way out is… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share
Facts are the images of history, just as images are the facts of fiction. — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share
Uncharged with invisible meaning, the visible is nothing, mere clay; and without visible circumstance, a territory, to connect to, our spirit is shapeless, nameless,… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share
“Writing a novel is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share
I did have a feeling then that the culture of factuality was so dominating that storytelling had lost all its authority. — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share
I got married very early, and in no time at all, we had three children. And it seemed to me I had an obligation… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share
When you're writing a book, you don't really think about it critically. You don't want to know too well what you're doing. First, you… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share
A writer's life is so hazardous that anything he does is bad for him. Anything that happens to him is bad: failure's bad, success… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share
