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> [I got married very early, and in no time at all, we had three children. And it seemed to me I had an obligation to support them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-l-doctorow/i-got-married-very-early-and-in-no-time-at-all-we-had-three-children/)

[E. L. Doctorow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-l-doctorow/)

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## More by E. L. Doctorow

> [Things that appear on the front page of the newspaper as 'fact' are far more dangerous than the games played by a novelist, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-l-doctorow/things-that-appear-on-the-front-page-of-the-newspaper-as-fact-are-far/)

[E. L. Doctorow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-l-doctorow/)

> [There are moments when I cannot bear this unremitting consciousness. It knows only itself. Awake, I am in a continuum with my dreams. I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-l-doctorow/there-are-moments-when-i-cannot-bear-this-unremitting-consciousness/)

[E. L. Doctorow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-l-doctorow/)

> [Most people are quiet in the world, and live in it tentatively, as if it were not their own.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-l-doctorow/most-people-are-quiet-in-the-world-and-live-in-it-tentatively-as-if/)

[E. L. Doctorow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-l-doctorow/)

> [It is the immigrant hordes who keep this country alive, the waves of them arriving year after year… Who believes in America more than…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-l-doctorow/it-is-the-immigrant-hordes-who-keep-this-country-alive-the-waves-of/)

[E. L. Doctorow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-l-doctorow/)

> [A book begins as a private excitement of the mind.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-l-doctorow/a-book-begins-as-a-private-excitement-of-the-mind/)

[E. L. Doctorow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-l-doctorow/)

> [I started on computers with 'Billy Bathgate,' a little orange screen with black letters. I thought it was really cool, but it actually slowed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-l-doctorow/i-started-on-computers-with-billy-bathgate-a-little-orange-screen/)

[E. L. Doctorow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-l-doctorow/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-l-doctorow/when-i-m-writing-i-like-to-seal-everything-off-and-face-the-wall-not/)

[E. L. Doctorow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-l-doctorow/)

> [Facts are the images of history, just as images are the facts of fiction.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-l-doctorow/facts-are-the-images-of-history-just-as-images-are-the-facts-of/)

[E. L. Doctorow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-l-doctorow/)

> [The nature of good fiction is that it dwells in ambiguity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-l-doctorow/the-nature-of-good-fiction-is-that-it-dwells-in-ambiguity/)

[E. L. Doctorow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-l-doctorow/)

> [Uncharged with invisible meaning, the visible is nothing, mere clay; and without visible circumstance, a territory, to connect to, our spirit is shapeless, nameless,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-l-doctorow/uncharged-with-invisible-meaning-the-visible-is-nothing-mere-clay-and/)

[E. L. Doctorow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-l-doctorow/)

> [“Writing a novel is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-l-doctorow/writing-a-novel-is-like-driving-at-night-in-the-fog-you-can-only-see/)

[E. L. Doctorow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-l-doctorow/)

> [I did have a feeling then that the culture of factuality was so dominating that storytelling had lost all its authority.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-l-doctorow/i-did-have-a-feeling-then-that-the-culture-of-factuality-was-so/)

[E. L. Doctorow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-l-doctorow/)

> [I got married very early, and in no time at all, we had three children. And it seemed to me I had an obligation…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-l-doctorow/i-got-married-very-early-and-in-no-time-at-all-we-had-three-children/)

[E. L. Doctorow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-l-doctorow/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-l-doctorow/when-you-re-writing-a-book-you-don-t-really-think-about-it-critically/)

[E. L. Doctorow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-l-doctorow/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-l-doctorow/a-writer-s-life-is-so-hazardous-that-anything-he-does-is-bad-for-him/)

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